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RUG-MAKING EXAMPLES
Rag-rug sample (looped/hooked) made with metal hook on 6x6 inch hessian backing, black cotton border with light blue triangles and pink/blue patterned diamond in centre. Alison Morton label tied to sample with hand drawn diagram and note ‘METAL HOOK worked from the front – long lengths of Rag hooked through hessian’. AM notebook: ‘During winter 1984/85 Made 6" square samples using the different tools I have collected. 2 Tufted and 2 looped. Black border with different coloured triangles and centres’.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2023.13.11
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Morton, Alison
Association Type: maker
Creation/Production
Morton, Alison
Acquisition
Donation
Measurements
Length
(mm): 200
Width
(mm): 200
Depth
(mm): 40
Techniques
rag rug making (hooked)
Material
cotton (fabric)
hessian (jute / hemp)
Location
In store
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