It's fall y'all, and thought this was a great rug to start the post with. A scarecrow from the Carol Telfer collection. After a previous post with a couple of the rugs referencing Carol Telfer I learned she was an antiques dealer and collector. I absolutely LOVE this piece! It was said to be from Canada.
Found this dog rug below strangely hooked and wonder why the hooker did it that way. I don't see a fourth foot, so what is that distended stomach area? There was no view of the back so couldn't tell if it was damaged and rehooked. Even so why would someone rehook it like this?
A deer eating leaves 21 x 39 on burlap and said to be hooked between 1800-1899.
An early cat dressed with a bow. Antique rugs are so darn interesting and fun. This one you can see how she 'made do' using what was available to finish areas even if the color was vastly different. She needed a rug, lol.
A Grenfell landscape and although hard to define, it appears to be a dog on the right foreground.
An oval rug depicting house and trees hooked with various textiles. This brought back my not so wise choices of using homespun and other hard-to-pull fabrics when doing the 'textile challenge' which you can see HERE. Some people made better choices which were more hand friendly. From the 1800's is this deer rug. Here is a closeup of the textiles and they must have been a cut quite wide as some appear to be large knotted loops.
Hit and miss rug of horse with tulips in the corners of the border.
Hope you enjoyed the show. Happy hooking.
Saundra
