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Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-2756

Description

Square form patterned with octagonal field of varrigated stripes enclosed by triangles of stripes, squares and smaller triangles at corners with an outer border of three varrigated bands. It is worked in polychrome yarns on a burlap ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
cotton (textile)
hooking
wool (textile)
geometric patterns
Cotton
Wool
Hooked
Geometric
RUG

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

51.75 x 52 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1202

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