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Rug

Collection Type

  • Textiles

Date

1910-1940

GUSN

GUSN-3198

Description

Square rug with striped outer border; two inner borders of boxed "X"s and short diagonal stripes and square field of four flowerheads; worked in shades of brown, red, pink, blue, beige, and green in wool and cotton burlap foundation.

Details

Descriptive Terms

rugs
burlap
cotton (textile)
hooking
wool (textile)
floral patterns
geometric patterns
Cotton
Wool
Burlap
Hooked
Floral
Geometric
RUG

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

36.5 x 36 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.981

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