- Date
- 1950 – 1975
- Material
- fibre, cotton; hair, sheep
- Catalogue Number
- 102.02.0038
- Description
- A latch-hooked scatter rug depicting a moose walking in a sylvan setting. Close, thick, pile of wool yarn worked on large mesh cotton (?) rug canvas. Large brown moose at centre walking by aqua stream with evergreen trees and bushes behind in various shades of green, underneath a deep blue sky with…
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- Title
- Throw Rug
- Date
- 1950 – 1975
- Material
- fibre, cotton; hair, sheep
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 72.0 x 144.0 cm
- Description
- A latch-hooked scatter rug depicting a moose walking in a sylvan setting. Close, thick, pile of wool yarn worked on large mesh cotton (?) rug canvas. Large brown moose at centre walking by aqua stream with evergreen trees and bushes behind in various shades of green, underneath a deep blue sky with white clouds scattered about. 4.5 cm wide brown border frames scene, edges finished with binding of dark green yarn, and 6.0 cm fringe at each end. Back of rug composed of small squares of colour where loops of yarn were knotted around mesh.
- Subject
- households
- furnishings
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.02.0038
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