Rug
- Object Name:
- Rug
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.07
- Place of Origin:
- New England
- Date:
- 1875-1900
- Description:
- Hooked Rug. "Fish Scales," scalloped design, worked in strips of wool and cotton woven and mostly knit fabrics on burlap. Slightly off-center motif of a red diamond is formed from the scales; it is flanked by two smaller diamonds of pale aqua outlined with deep red, also formed from the scale pattern. Bundles of yarn are used for the dark red of the outer diamonds. One of these smaller diamonds is conjoined to the larger red diamond. Background diamonds are shades of beige outlined in black. Edges are finished with a binding of green cotton twill tape on two sides, and a similarly colored velveteen on the other two sides.
- Material:
- Textile
Wool
Cotton
Velvet
Burlap - Dimensions:
- W-19.25 L-37 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
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