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1850-1900
GUSN-2824
Large square format-patterned with a centered, leaf-edged reserve enclosing a large rose blossom and other flower heads within a variegated field of roseheads, rose sprigs, leafy vines, and oak leaf band border worked in shades of red, green, brown, beige and blue on a burlap foundation; some yarns are looped and some are clipped; backed in black canvas.
rugs
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
wool (textile)
floral patterns
Cotton
Wool
Burlap
Hooked
Floral
Rug
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
New England
109 1/2 x 108 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1276
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