Rug
- Object Name:
- Rug
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.03
- Place of Origin:
- New England
- Date:
- 1865-1910
- Description:
- Hooked Rug. Worked with strips of woven fabric, mostly wool, but some also appear to have cotton in the weave. Pattern of opposing chevrons, forming a diamond in the center and half-diamonds on the edges. The design is formed of colored rectangles, which create stepped zig-zag lines. The color red dominates, with other lines worked in shades of dark olive brown, light olive brown, and pale seafoam blue. Different shades of each of these colors are used, giving each rectangle a prism-like effect. The border is worked in straight lines of red, pale seafoam, brown, dark blue-black, and dark brown-black. Burlap backing is bound and turned under to finish.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool
Cotton
Burlap - Dimensions:
- W-32 L-54 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, Diamonds
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