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Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1850-1890

GUSN

GUSN-2716

Description

Hooked rug of long rectangular form, of cotton on burlap with a black tape edge. It is on a pink-beige/brown stripe ground with a navy/gray stripe border and 3 quadrafoil medallions resembling paper cut-outs badly centered along the ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
quatrefoils
Victorian
Cotton
Burlap
Hooked
Victorian
Quatrefoil
RUG

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

31 x 62.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.941

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