Bed Rug

M. B.

1809 · Wool embroidered with wool · The American Wing

This bed rug is needleworked in looped running stitch, which has been cut to form a pile surface on the light brown/ochre woven wool base. The base is made of three panels of fabric, sewn together at their selvedges. The bed rug is decorated with a central pattern of branching flowers stemming from a single vase, along with a border of large flowers and twisting vines in shades of rust brown, light brown, yellow beige, and moss green with a black background.

Artist

M. B.

Date

1809

Medium

Wool embroidered with wool

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1913