Carpet
- Object Name:
- Carpet
- Object ID:
- 1980.046.10
- Date:
- 1887-1900
- Description:
- Woven carpet, ingrain. Two pieces. Red and green in leaf design. Used in parlor, hall and on steps to second floor (?).
Two pieces of wool ingrain carpet from a larger carpet that was used in an 1887 house in Concord. Woven with a leaf design in red and green.The double-weave structure of ingrain carpeting allows the fabric to be reversible, with the color being opposite on front and back. Each of these two carpet fragments is pieced from three pieces, which are hand-stitched together and then hemmed all around. - Material:
- Textile
- Provenance:
- Carpet from parlor, hall and on steps to second floor of house at 432 North State Street, Concord, NH, built in 1887 by John B. and Ellen Giles and purchased by James and Joan Jeffrey in 1963.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joan Jeffrey
- People:
- Giles, Emily, Giles, John B.
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