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.
rugs
hooking
wool (textile)
Rug
Rug
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
61 1/2 x 31 5/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1366
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