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Hooked Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1890-1920

GUSN

GUSN-2671

Description

Of nearly square form, patterned with a polychrome eight-pointed star with a "bulls-eye" pattern centered on a brown field. Also with rainbow-like quarter rounds in the corners.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
wool (textile)
Rug
Rug

Associated Building

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

Additional Identification Number

1991.895

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

23 1/4 x 26 1/2 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.896

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