The rug is a square form, patterned with large abstract leaves and flowerheads in shades of rose, cream, pale blue, aqua and lavendar on a dark variegated ground in shades of purple, black and green. Hooked on a burlap foundation.
rugs
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
floral patterns
Burlap
Cotton
Hooked
Floral
Rug
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
35 x 36 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1280
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