Mat, Chair

Object Name:

Mat, Chair

Object ID:

1947.025.24

Creator:

Ross, E. & Co.Manufacturer; Ross, Ebenezer (1835-1904)Manufacturer

Place of Origin:

Toledo, OH/New Hampshire

Date:

1889-1891

Description:

Chair Mat. Made from pattern manufactured by E. Ross & Co., Toledo, OH, 1889-1891. Square. Hooked wool, silk, and jute on burlap. Printed on machine-manufactured burlap. Floral design with a ground of natural toned single-ply Z-twist jute yarn, central motif of two roses in bloom, with a rose bud pointing toward the top and a five-petal flower projecting toward the bottom. Flowers hooked in red surrounded by green vines and leaves of two-ply worsted wool yarn surrounded by two rows of abutting scalloped borders; inner of red Z-twist jute single yarn, outer made with a multiplied bouclé yarn; each individual ply consists of an overspun dark green wool plied with a loosely spun silk yarn in red, light green, blue, or white; edges are a square border of the same yarn. Original pattern border (unfinished edge) turned and pressed to the reverse side; hand hemmed and whipstitched a 0.25". Four 30" lengths of four-ply Z-twist brown cord doubled and hand-stitched at center to each of the four corners. Center of one of the reverse edges has a 3" x 1" white label hand-stitched above the hem; typing reads "Article-Chair mat (chair) / Rose design, black / border 16 1/2" x 16 1/2" / Donor-Miss Jesse M. Tilney / Date-August, 1947".

Material:

Textile
Wool
Jute
Silk

Dimensions:

W-16.5 L-16.5 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:

Ross, Ebenezer (1835-1904), Tilney, Mary M. (1855-1914), Tilney, Robert F. (1849-1926), Tilney, Jessie Mason (1883-1960)

Subjects:

Jute, Wool, Rugs, Handwork, Textiles, Textile production, Textile design drawings, Patterns (Design elements), Roses, Leaves, Burlap, Silk, Chair mat