Historic New England

Ingrain Carpet Fragment

Square format with selvage sides. Woven design of polychromatic rows of large eight-sided (points squared off) diamonds with large leaves and vines filling spaces in between. Predominant use of red, brown, green, and cream colors.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8666

Accession Number: 1993.506

Ingrain carpet

Rectangular section of pieced three-strip carpeting; woven design of 3" wide sashing gridwork of lines of concentric squares; at intersections, small starburst amongst stripes. Blocks formed by inter-arc of alternating round medallions with floral spray on stripes or blocks filled with vine sprays o...

Date: 1870-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, ingrain carpets, jacquard, weaving, machine-made, piercing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8667

Accession Number: 1993.3

Ingrain carpet

Large rectangular pieced section; woven design of polychromatic rows of alternating cruciform medallions with floral centers and oval floral medallions with diamond centers; interspaces filled with oak leaf clusters and roses. Predominantly browns, cream, green and reds. One end bound in green wool ...

Date: 1865-1885

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, ingrain carpets, jacquard, weaving, machine-made, piercing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8668

Accession Number: 1993.2

Ingrain carpet

Rectangular pieced section; woven design of polychromatic rows of alternating cruciform medallions with floral centers and oval floral medallions with diamond centers; interspaces filled with oak leaf clusters and roses. Predominantly browns, cream, green and reds. Green wool binding.

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, ingrain carpets, jacquard, weaving, machine-made, piercing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8669

Accession Number: 1993.869

Ingrain Carpet

Staple-shaped, strip and one-half wide with selvage sides. Woven of polychromatic rows of large scale eight-sided (points squared off) diamonds with large leaves and vines filling spaces between. Predominantly red, brown, green and cream colors.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8670

Accession Number: 1993.1B

Ingrain Carpet

Rectangular strip with selvage sides. Woven of polychromatic rows of large scale eight-sided (points squared off) diamonds with large leaves and vines filling spaces between. Predominantly red, brown, green and cream colors.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, machine-made, piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8671

Accession Number: 1993.1C

Ingrain Carpet

Strip and one-half wide with selvage sides. Woven of polychromatic rows of large scale eight-sided (points squared off) diamonds with large leaves and vines filling spaces between. Predominantly red, brown, green and cream colors.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8672

Accession Number: 1993.1D

Carpet protector fragment

Rectangular panels/stripes of natural/tan cotton; coarse and loosely woven. Plain weave with alternating stripes of tightly woven cotton and loosely woven. Selvage edges.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), tabby (textile)

GUSN: 8673

Accession Number: 1990.309.1

Carpet protector fragment

Rectangular panels/stripes of natural/tan cotton; coarse and loosely woven. Plain weave with alternating stripes of tightly woven cotton and loosely woven. Selvage edges.

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), tabby (textile)

GUSN: 8674

Accession Number: 1990.309.2

Carpet

Rectangular, pieced section of wool cut pile carpeting. Woven design of rows of very large scale geometric medallions on interlocking floral and geometric bands; pale center with floral spray. Between medallions: swirling, two-toned red leafy scrolls.

Date: 1855-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: pile (textile component), jute (fiber), weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8675

Accession Number: 1987.384

Hook

Iron hook with ring top.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 8676

Accession Number: 1992.752

Hook

Iron hook with heart-shaped handle.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 8677

Accession Number: 1992.753

Hook

Iron hook with hooks at right angles.

Date: 1700-1750

Maker: unknown

Material: iron (metal), wrought

GUSN: 8678

Accession Number: 1992.754

Shaker Box Pattern

Template for Shaker sewing box, of thickly pieced together wood attached with nails, the center portion adjustable for length to range from 9 7/8" to 10 1/4", of characteristic oval shape.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 8679

Accession Number: 1992.755

Shaker Box Pattern

One of set of three wooden Shaker box patterns of oval shape, holes in center, tied together with NFL tag.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 8680

Accession Number: 1992.756

Shaker Box Pattern

One of set of three wooden Shaker box patterns of oval shape, holes in center, tied together with NFL tag.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 8681

Accession Number: 1992.757

Shaker Box Pattern

One of set of three wooden Shaker box patterns of oval shape, holes in center, tied together with NFL tag.

Date: 1800-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 8682

Accession Number: 1992.758

Doorstop

Green glass doorstop--original use: telephone wire insulator.

Date: 1900-1950

Maker: Whitall Tatum Co. (Maker)

Material: glass (material), molding (forming)

GUSN: 8683

Accession Number: 1992.768

Ingrain Carpet Fragment

Irregularly-shaped square woven in floral cartouche pattern of red and green.

Date: 1851-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8684

Accession Number: 1986.1077

Ingrain carpet fragment

Rectangular with selvage sides; ends bound with paisley cotton. Woven design of rows of widely spaced medium-sized red floral motifs with olive-branch shading alternating with smaller scale versions. Plain green ground with scattering of white and olive-brown trefoils allover.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves, ingrain carpets, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8685

Accession Number: 1986.1075

Baize hall runner

Green wool (baize) strip. Printed gold border of repeating leaf and flower within frieze; scrolling looped leaves alternate with thorned acorn vine. At corners, floral cartouches placed at angles. At center, oval medallion with six leaf and crown border around center potted plant. Raw edges.

Date: 1826-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: baize, block printing (relief printing process), stitching, piecing, resist dyeing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8686

Accession Number: 1986.823

Ingrain Carpet Sample

Rectangular, polychromatic carpet sample stapled to paper informational tag.

Date: 1899

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8687

Accession Number: 1981.14.5

Ingrain Carpet Sample

Rectangular, polychromatic (predominantly green) carpet sample stapled to paper informational tag.

Date: 1899

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8688

Accession Number: 1981.14.4

Ingrain Carpet Sample

Rectangular, polychromatic carpet sample stapled to paper informational tag.

Date: 1899

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8689

Accession Number: 1981.14.3

Ingrain Carpet Sample

Rectangular, polychromatic carpet sample stapled to paper informational tag.

Date: 1899

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves, jacquard, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8690

Accession Number: 1981.14.2

Ingrain Carpet Sample

Rectangular, polychromatic carpet sample stapled to paper informational tag.

Date: 1899

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), flatweaves

GUSN: 8691

Accession Number: 1981.14.1

Envelope

No description

Date: 1899

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 8692

Accession Number: 1981.14.6

Carpet

Pieced, room-sized carpet woven in "Persian" style; rows of alternating green and red foliated strapwork star crosses with small polychromatic crosses on white ground.

Date: 1855-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8693

Accession Number: 1980.162A

Carpet

Pieced, room-sized carpet woven in "Persian" style; rows of alternating green and red foliated strapwork star crosses with small polychromatic crosses on white ground.

Date: 1855-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8694

Accession Number: 1980.162B

Carpet fragment

Rectangular carpet woven in Oriental style; bright polychromatic rows of rectangles broken up and divided by floral motifs. Rectangles further divided by interior lines with geometric motifs; blue or red ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8695

Accession Number: 1980.161A

Carpet fragment

Rectangular carpet woven in Oriental style; bright polychromatic rows of rectangles broken up and divided by floral motifs. Rectangles further divided by interior lines with geometric motifs; blue or red ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8696

Accession Number: 1980.161B

Carpet fragment

Rectangular carpet woven in Oriental style; bright polychromatic rows of rectangles broken up and divided by floral motifs. Rectangles further divided by interior lines with geometric motifs; blue or red ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8697

Accession Number: 1980.161C

Carpet fragment

Rectangular carpet woven in Oriental style; bright polychromatic rows of rectangles broken up and divided by floral motifs. Rectangles further divided by interior lines with geometric motifs; blue or red ground.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8698

Accession Number: 1980.161D

Ingrain carpet

Rectangular strip of stair carpeting woven in repeating rows of simplistic sprig fans and small oval motifs of gold and white.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, ingrain carpets, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8699

Accession Number: 1980.160A

Ingrain carpet

Rectangular strip of stair carpeting woven in repeating rows of simplistic sprig fans and small oval motifs of gold and white.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, ingrain carpets, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8700

Accession Number: 1980.160B

Carpet

Large, rectangular, pieced, with printed polychromatic floral design on one side. Rows of small scale red and green floral motifs and green and white diamond ground on opposite side.

Date: 1876-1899

Maker: unknown

Material: flatweaves, jute (fiber), weaving, machine-made, piecing, printing (process)

GUSN: 8701

Accession Number: 1980.159

Carpet fragment

Rectangular, pieced strip with selvage side woven in Morris-style overall floral pattern with small scale flowering thin-leaved plants on a dark blue ground.

Date: 1876-1920

Maker: Bigelow Carpet Company (Manufacturer)

Material: cotton (textile), jacquard, weaving, weft loop weave, machine-made, piecing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8702

Accession Number: 1980.158

Carpet Frgament

Rectangular, pieced strip woven in large scale polychromatic tapestry style with flowers and leaves. Selvage sides.

Date: 1860-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), pile (textile component), machine-made, piecing, tapestry (process), wool (textile)

GUSN: 8703

Accession Number: 1980.156

Carpet fragment

T-shaped piece with light colored abstract shapes with dark borders on green ground.

Date: 1855-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, alteration (process and technique), wool (textile)

GUSN: 8704

Accession Number: 1980.155

Carpet fragment

Rectangular strip with selvage sides. Woven in an arborescent floral pattern of vines and flowers in shades of blue and white.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8705

Accession Number: 1980.154A

Carpet fragment

Rectangular strip with selvage sides. Woven in an arborescent floral pattern of vines and flowers in shades of blue and white.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), jute (fiber), weft loop weave, weaving, machine-made, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8706

Accession Number: 1980.154B

Table cover

Roughly square; yellow wool gauze; scalloped edges. Black velvet flocked border of floral motifs with large spray in corner.

Maker: unknown

Material: flocking, gauze, velvet (fabric weave), wool (textile)

GUSN: 8886

Accession Number: 1933.2145

Table cover

White cotton filet lace; diamond-shape forming squares, crosses and larger diamonds. Square body with deeply pointed edges. Narrow border of chenille all around; chenille tassels on points.

Date: 1790-1853

Maker: Thompson, Abiah Haskell, 1779-1853 (Maker)

Material: chenille (yarn), cotton (textile), embroidering, lace (needlework), net (textile)

GUSN: 8887

Accession Number: 1932.2493

Table Cover

Roughly square; white linen ground; appliqued border of four rows of 1/2" wide bands of olive wool tape with black top stitching. Mitred at corners.

Maker: unknown

Material: appliqué (technique), linen (material), hand sewing, wool (textile)

GUSN: 8888

Accession Number: 1932.437

Table cover

White cotton ground printed with open lattice in brown. Squares of lattice printed with circles. Stripes of lattice printed with squiggles with floral sprigs also in vertical stripes. Floral serpentine border.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), printing (process), rolling up

GUSN: 8889

Accession Number: 1926.744

Table cloth

Square, off white panel woven in geometric diamond pattern; narrow zig-zag borders. Tied cotton fringe along selvage sides; self fringe on ends. Bronson weave.

Date: 1800-1830

Maker: Aldrich, Diana Gaskill (Weaver) Slater, Samuel (Recipient)

Material: weaving, cotton (textile), fringe, hand weaving

GUSN: 8903

Accession Number: 1965.113

Tablecloth

Rectangular; white and gold; three leafy medallions in round Greek Key frames; large leafy oval frame. Inner border of leafy vine; large bunches of leaves in corners. Greek Key middle border; small checkerboard outer border. Self fringe all around.

Maker: unknown

Material: damask, linen (material), weaving, machine-made

GUSN: 8904

Accession Number: 1964.335

Tablecloth

Red on tan cotton damask. Repeating pattern: row of large floral quatrefoils and small floral sprigs; row of small sprigs; row of small sprigs and quatrefoils; row of small sprigs. Border along sides only. Inner border of leaves. Outer border of alternating trefoil-centered triangles and quatrefoil...

Date: 1850-1895

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), damask, stitching, weaving, machine-made

GUSN: 8905

Accession Number: 1964.333

Tablecloth

White linen damask. Large overall sunburst pattern. Small double Greek Key inner and outer border. Red cotton middle border in large Greek Key motif. Hemmed top and bottom. Selvage sides.

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), damask, linen (material)

GUSN: 8906

Accession Number: 1964.327A

Tablecloth

Rectangular; white linen damask. Lobster medallion at center; elaborate frame; floral/ geometric stripe ground. Blue cotton inner and outer border in Greek Key pattern. Red cotton middle border with gnomes. Self fringe all around.

Date: 1834-1867

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), damask, linen (material)

GUSN: 8907

Accession Number: 1964.326A

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