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Woven wool Cabistan rug. in the center panel is a pole medallion containing crosses, rosettes, windows, and y-shaped trees. The field outside the medallion has multi-colored botehs. There is a diamond and spiked T design going down both sides. There are four borders. Three borders are small latch-hook designs, the other has multi-colored diamonds in a tree branch pattern. The edges are bound in orange. At both ends there is a section where the fringe is brown and white speckled instead of plain white.
rugs
wool (textile)
cotton (textile)
Rug
"Cabistan" (Handwritten paper tag formerly attached to lower right corner.)
"4 - Rugs / 1 from Dining room / 1 Blue Rug Catheret / sewing room / 2) upstairs Hall / Cleaned June 11, 1956" (Handwritten paper tag formerly attached to lower right corner.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P085
Unknown
6/16 x 44 15/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.508
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