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Rug

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Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-11236

Description

Rectangular rug with a spray of roses on a beige field; enclosed by polychrome striped border; roses are worked in red, yellow, green and black; cotton fabrics on a burlap foundation backed with a green/beige wool blanket material and bound with a beige wool tape.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
wool (textile)
Cotton
Wool
Burlap
Hooked
RUG

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

27 x 44.375 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.638

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