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Rug
1775-1825
- Medium
- Wool, plain weave embroidered with wool yarn in outline, running, satin and stem stitches forming uncut pile
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 93.9 × 173.6 cm (37 × 68 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Sundry Account Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The textural quality of this rug was created through embroidery stitches that form pile on the surface. This type of rug is a predecessor of the popular hooked rugs of the 19th century, which utilized a labor saving rug hooking tool and strips of fabric to create a textile that was the same on the front and back.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
