Saturday, May 24, 2014

Civil War Commemoratives: Hooked Rugs


Hooked rug with Grand Army of the Republic image in center.

Rug-hooking was a post-Civil War crafts fashion. We can find a few in the rug subcategory
of Civil-War-commemorative textiles 

Read more about the late-19th-century GAR rug above here:
http://www.hcaauctions.com/lot-4055.aspx gar rug

This rug recalls a guard dog at the Confederate prison for Union captives.
Read an online essay by Jeni Sandberg about the commercial pattern here:

https://blog.etsy.com/en/2012/libby-prison-bloodhound-hook-rug/

Here's a remembrance of the Union ironclad ship The USS Monitor.

Many rugs with shields and other Union imagery from the turn of the 20th century survive.
Without a direct Civil War or veteran's organization reference, however,
we have to categorize them as patriotic rather than Union.


3 comments:

  1. Beautiful rug examples. I really need to finish the large one I started, it is a fraktur style I did with my designs.

    Debbie

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  2. Those are all extraordinary rugs! Thanks for showing them to us. Designs in quilts and designs in in hooked rugs are so often related, if not simply copies.

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