RUG SHOW

I feel the need to do a post, and the sheep rug still isn't finished so thought I'd provide a rug show for you.  

Wonderful oval landscape, 23 x 46 and hooked early 20th century.

Horse hooked late 19th or early 20th century, dimensions are 21 x 40.

Lion said to be hooked 1900 measures 23 x 47.5.

A recumbent dog also dated 1900, 22.5 x 38 with a bold hit and miss background.

No date on the geometric star rug, 39 x 44.  Good use of those worms.

This cat was said to be from 20th century.  Seems the photo doesn't show the entire rug as it measures 18.5 x 31.5.  So is hard to say if it had a border, was an oval or what shape.  Must say whoever hooked it did a great job making the rug look like a braided one.  

Subtle colors, primitive scrolls in corner.

A quite stained whale hunt rug hooked early 20th century, 24 x 36. 

For true colors before staining, here is a photo of the back.

Lots going on in this home hearth scene.  Hooked by Minnie (Nissley) Stehman in 1930 from Ephrata, PA, size is 38 x 68.

The rugs shown above were from another but full flash drive. Several years ago I saved all my photos on the computer and then one day my computer crashed.  Poof.  There went all the antique rug photos, rug camp photos taken with a digital camera, all gone.  That is when I purchased flash drives and made separate folders with subject:  antique hooked rugs, Cape May rug camp, Woolley Fox camp, etc. and accessing what I wanted to post was a piece of cake.

Now to my recent nightmare!  I printed out enlarged pages for my next project but thought it was too big.  Decided to print another pattern a tad smaller so put the flash drive back into the USB port.  A pop-up said: "unable to open drive needs formatting".  WHAT???  Couldn't believe my eyes to pulled the flash drive out and inserted again with the same response.  My 32GB flash drive had crashed!  Hundreds of photos gone.

I wondered if it was possible for the photos to be recovered so took it to a local computer shop.  The next day the computer tech called me saying he would be able to recover the photos and started describing them.  I acknowledged him and stated they were all named and in separate folders.  His reply was, not now.  But at least the photos survived and were put on another flash drive.  

So now this is what I see when opening up the drive.  There are 3 folders of recovered pictures and of course this is only the viewing of a portion of one folder.  No description, no longer in separate folders and frankly don't plan to do the hours and hours of work required to organize them again.  But at least if there is something I must have can probably find it now.  Only file I might make would be my pattern line drawings.

Oh, and now that I know  just one flash drive still isn't safe I will back it up on a terabyte drive known as "My Passport".  

Back to force feeding the sheep again awaiting more inclement weather and high winds.  Happy hooking.

Saundra

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