 | Painted Window Shade - Pastoral Landscape
This transparent window blind or shade bears a somewhat stylized, romantic pastoral painting. The scene depicts a deep green foreground, a blue body of water with green field and fence beyond, and a neutral light colored road cutting diagonally across the far side of road with a large stylized tree... |
 | Painted Window Shade - Floral Motifs
Panel designed in gold on gray oil cloth. Small floral motifs in each corner and center of lower edge of panel. Tacked to original roller, which has a label for S. Putnam and Company, 1857. |
 | Painted Window Shade - Landscape
This window shade is a painted with a landscape featuring two trees. |
 | Painted Window Shade - Landscape
Painted landscape of trees, mountains and buildings beside a lake or river, on a cotton shade. The original label is from James Owen, Kendall's Mills, ME. |
 | Block Printed Window Shade - Zachary Taylor
This window shade has a block printed design on a rainbow ground showing the mounted figure of Mexican war hero and President Zachary Taylor. Reads "Rough and Ready" above a trophy of arms and within a cartouche. |
 | Fragment of Ingrain Carpet - Geometric Pattern
Fragment of ingrain carpet with a series of squares in a geometric design. Fringed on three sides. Woven in green, red, blue, and brown. |
 | Fragment of Venetian Carpet
Fragment of warp-faced Venetian carpet. Striped in shades of green, rose and tan with narrow white stripes. Heavy brown cotton weft. One end bound with striped tape. Reproduced for Salem Towne house entry ca. 1988. |
 | Woven Striped Rag Carpet
Home-woven rag carpet made of three widths sewn together. Strips of blue, yellow, tan, brown, and red, some of cotton prints, some linen checks, and some wool. Approximately every 13 inches there is a wide strip of brown and twisted deep yellow that forms a sort of vine pattern. Brown cotton warp,... |
 | Fragment of Scotch Ingrain Carpet
Fragment of Scotch ingrain carpet. Central motif in the strip seems to be a corruption of the Assyrian eight-pointed star. There are floral and leaf motifs inside the star with feather and oak leaf motifs at the ends. Woven in shades of brown rose, and cream. The colors are reversed on the second... |
 | Fragment of Striped Carpet
Fragment of warp-faced carpeting composed of wool warp and tow weft. Warp threads consist of varicolored stripes: green, yellow, madder red, and white, alternating with checkered stripe composed of black and olive green. Weft is composed of brown tow consisting of one thick thread alternated with... |
 | Fragment of Striped Rag Carpet
Fragment of rag carpet. Twisted cotton warp in brown. Woven in strips partly of cloth scraps, partly of heavy wool yarn. Shades of rose, blue, green, yellow, black, tan, and brown. |
 | Yarn-Sewn Hearth Rug - Lions
Yarn sewn rug with clipped pile on a fine linen base fabric and backed with coarse ecru linen. Geometric border on three sides consisting of diamonds on a green background. Diamonds alternate blue and pink with red or brown borders. In each of the four corners is a circle made of one color built on... |
 | Fragment of Woven Striped Carpet
Fragment of hand-woven carpet with cotton and jute warp and cotton weft. Horizontal stripes of red, rose, gray, white, brown, tan, yellow and orange. |
 | Fragment of Scotch Ingrain Carpet
Fragment of woven Scotch ingrain carpet. Geometric pattern on a cream ground with eight-sided figures outlined in olive with olive, raspberry, and blue patterns in squares. Reverse color on back. Single strip. Inch-and a-half self fringe on either end. |
 | Shirred Rug - Cornucopia Motif
Shirred rug with cornucopia motif in yellow. Background is mainly dark brown. Strips of fabric have been folded in half with the raw edges up. They were gathered and then stitched down the center to the backing.
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