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Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1865-1900

GUSN

GUSN-2714

Description

Of rectangular form patterned with a shaped field of polychrome tones, within a border in the shape of a rustic frame of varrigated tans on a varrigated brown ground. Hooked on a burlap foundation and bound with cottontape.

Details

Descriptive Terms

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

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

78 x 33 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.939

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