Rug
c.1953 (Made), 1953 (made)
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Rug with woollen pile hooked onto a canvas base. There are two pieces of canvas, each one hooked as a complete unit and then joined together so that one figure is up-side-down. There is the upper half of a female figure with a coral/red fan and a mauve and white headdress on one panel and the upper half of a man on the other. He has red hair and a red beard and a black top hat. There are borders along the outer edges; part of the border is yellow dotted with colour and part if green and white. There is a light grey hooked fringe on all four sides.
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Materials and techniques | Hooked wool and linen canvas |
Brief description | Rug, hooked wool, Elisabeth Collins, British, 1953. |
Physical description | Rug with woollen pile hooked onto a canvas base. There are two pieces of canvas, each one hooked as a complete unit and then joined together so that one figure is up-side-down. There is the upper half of a female figure with a coral/red fan and a mauve and white headdress on one panel and the upper half of a man on the other. He has red hair and a red beard and a black top hat. There are borders along the outer edges; part of the border is yellow dotted with colour and part if green and white. There is a light grey hooked fringe on all four sides. |
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Credit line | Given by Robin Baring |
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Accession number | T.776-2000 |
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Record created | July 13, 2000 |
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