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Rectangular form with an undulating flowering vine pattern worked in many shades of green, pink, beige, red and is on a green/brown field with in a navy blue/black border; bound with gray linen tape; worked on a pierced brown wool ground; handmade in chenille shirred method. See photo: negative #46196-1, 7/1993
rugs
shirring
wool (textile)
Wool
Shirred
RUG
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
87.5 x 40.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1383
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