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Table Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1880-1920

GUSN

GUSN-2910

Description

Rectangular form, patterned with centered rectangular reserve with zig-zag "n stepped" corners enclosed by variously colored conformity bauds and corner blocks. Bound in green cotton tape. Hooked in polychrome cotton yarns on a burlap ground. The predominate shades of color are yellow, vauagated blue, red, purple and green.

Details

Descriptive Terms

table linens
cotton (textile)
hooking
geometric patterns
Cotton
Hooked
Geometric
RUG, TABLE

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

35.25 x 18.5 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1382

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