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Rug Runner

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1865-1885

GUSN

GUSN-2670

Description

Of long, narrow form, patterned with a flowering vine in shades of tan, red, blue, green tan and brown on a dark green ground. It is enclosed by a green and blue scalloped inner border and a polychrome striped outer border. It has a braided binding and a black cotton sateen background.

Details

Descriptive Terms

runners (floor coverings)
burlap
hooking
wool (textile)
Runner, Floor
Runner, Floor

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.894

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

13 x 22 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.895

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