Rug
- Object Name:
- Rug
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.05
- Place of Origin:
- New England
- Date:
- 1875-1910
- Description:
- Hooked Rug. Worked with strips of cotton and wool woven and knit fabrics on burlap. Features a center rectangle of hit-or-miss stripes in shades of red, white, blue, and beige. Center rectangle is framed by multiple straight borders in blue, beige, brown, black, red, and dark olive. The rug edges were finished by turning the burlap under and hooking over the hem.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool
Cotton
Burlap - Dimensions:
- W-16.75 L-30.75 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, Stripes
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