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.
rugs
cotton (textile)
stenciling
wool (textile)
weaving
Rug
Rug
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
44 1/2 x 37 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.383
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