Rug

Object Name:

Rug

Object ID:

1947.025.01

Place of Origin:

New England

Date:

1880-1910

Description:

Hooked Rug. Design in horizontal bands of connected hexagons filled with various floral and leaf motifs in red, blue, purple, and beige, with green leaves. Each row features the same motif in different colors. Between the rows are diamonds in blue. Bordered with straight lines in light blue, shades of tan, and dark green; it is edged with a single braided strip of brown wool twill fabric, pieced with a multi-brown and a dark green strip of braiding. The white and denim blue areas of the rug are hooked with strips of cotton knit fabric, probably old stockings. Some of the green is also a knit fabric. Most of the hooked strips are woven wool fabrics, including plain and twill weaves. Hooking is worked through burlap, and is very tight.

Material:

Textile
Wool
Burlap

Dimensions:

W-34.5 L-56.75 inches

Provenance:

Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro) between 1895 and 1913.

Credit Line:

The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney

People:

Tilney, Mary M. (1855-1914), Tilney, Robert F. (1849-1926), Tilney, Jessie Mason (1883-1960)

Subjects:

Rugs, Textiles, Floor coverings, Flowers