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Hooked Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1875-1900

GUSN

GUSN-2895

Description

Retangular form with a centered shaped reserve, patterned with rose sprigs and scrolls enclosed by two diagonal corners with palmettos and scrolled sprig borders. The rose lowers and buds are raised in Waldoboro style. Worked in wool yarns in shades of green, yellow, brown, red and purple on a burlap foundation.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
hooking
wool (textile)
Rug
Rug

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

61 1/2 x 31 5/8 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1366

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