Rug

Woven wool rug, Sabbathday Lake, ME

1847

Object ID:
1952.5226.1
Community:
Maine, Sabbathday Lake
Description

Warp-faced rug. Warp is made of three colors strands of wool. In two different color combinations which gives a striped effect. Bound on all four sides - binding may be replaced. Dark green/red and white twisted warp and light green/red and white twisted warp. These two color combinations are repeated every 3 1/2" making a striped carpet. Warp threads densely packed, 24 epi which creates a warp-faced textile, filling or weft is a thick brown wool yarn, barely visible under warp.

Maine Sabbathday Lake

Maine Sabbathday Lake

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Shaker Museum Rug. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=814. Accessed on September 22, 2024

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