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Hooked Rug Runner

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1875-1900

GUSN

GUSN-11431

Description

A very long, narrow runner hooked in polychrome wool in a repeated foliate scroll design on a varregated brown and tan ground. It follows the contours of the scrolls and is bound in green cotton tape.

Details

Descriptive Terms

runners (floor coverings)
hooking
wool (textile)
Rug
Rug

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

192 x 16 1/8 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.381

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