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Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1830-1850

GUSN

GUSN-11433

Description

A section of a striped rug woven with beige cotton and madder, purple and green wool warp and variously printed and rolled cotton fabric weft- painted an umber and stenciled with pineapples and foliate devices in red, green and black.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
cotton (textile)
stenciling
wool (textile)
weaving
Rug
Rug

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

44 1/2 x 37 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.383

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