Hooked Rug
notes: label: Description
content: A hooked rug with a central floral oval medallion with a scrolled border and flowers in each corner. Hooked with narrow strips of wool on a stamped burlap pattern manufactured by E.S. Frost & Co. ca. 1870. Edward Sands Frost was a tin peddler who created zinc stencils to transfer a design for a rug onto a piece of burlap. Eventually he stopped peddling and began his own rug pattern business and developed a method for printing patterns in colors. Ill health forced him to sell his business in 1876, but by that time he had approximately 180 different patterns for rugs, using over 750 zinc plates.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Dritz and Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T10004
label: catalog number
content: T10004.000
label: accession number
content: 177848
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rug, hooked