Developing a Home Industry: How the Abnákee Rug Grew Out of the Old-Fashioned Hooked Mat of Our Grandmothers
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A 1909 Craftsman article in which Helen R. Albee describes how she developed the Abnákee hooked rug from traditional New England hooked mats and built it into a home industry. She covers her choice of materials (British burlap, pure-wool twilled flannel cut in very narrow strips), her use of primitive ornament in place of floral and Oriental imitations, and how she spread the craft by supplying flannel, dyes, burlap, frames and hooks. The final pages explain border and field layouts and how she makes and stamps stencils; the frame, hook and working methods are promised for a later paper. Illustrations show two rug designs, one with barbaric symbols in the border and one adapting primitive forms.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1909
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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