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Hooked rug with wading waterbird
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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  • Stanley - Eliza
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Hooked rug with wading waterbird
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Rug. Hooked, yarn and jersey material, with note "...made by Eliza Stanley." White waterbird with yellow bill wading with cattails, mountains, and butterfly in background; brown border. Faded, torn, worn, repaired at some earlier time. Eliza Stanley b. 1888 and d. 1967. (Donor bought Eliza and Pink Stanley's house 1970.)
Rug from President of Harvard Chas. Eliot's sloop "Sunshine"
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
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  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Late 1800? Acrylic yarn makes date of 1870 implausible. Family says "Sunshine" built then.
Hooked rug with clamshell design
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Hooked rug with clamshell design
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Rug. Hooked rug, with clamshell design. Description for clamshell from donor's 1987 appraisal at Thomaston Galleries: HOOKED RUG: woolens on burlap with 1/2”-wide braided border. Dark band enclosing tight rows of dark polychrome “Clam Shells”. Good overall condition. 20th c. American Dim: 28” x 47”. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child.
Hooked rug with floral design
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Hooked rug with floral design
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Rug. Hooked rug, with floral design. Donor doesn't know if it was made on GCI, but recalls it being in her mother's GCI home when she was a child. Rug is hooked with stockings and fabric on burlap.
Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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Braided rugs and pot holder by Addie Duren
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Rugs: two braided multi-colored rugs; and one cloth pot holder. These three items were all made by GCI resident Addie Duren. Rug (A) is oval shaped, brightly colored reds, blues, purples, greys 46" long by 32.5" wide. Rug (B) is oval shaped, black and tan overall 56" long x 39" wide. There is a story that when the Duren house caught fire (19xx?), it was Addie's rags and rug-making materials stored in the attic that kept the fire from spreading rapidly through whole house. Pot holder (C) has crocheted edges with dancing girl and pink backing. [show more]