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.