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Although they are being used in almost all types of houses, 
hooked rugs appear at their best in a room that is finished and 
furnished in the Colonial or cottage manner 
HOOKED RUGS 
T HE multitude of things in heaven 
and earth undreamed of in Hora¬ 
tio’s philosophy seems almost nu¬ 
merically matched by the things an¬ 
tique and curious which year after year 
discovers to us. 
We imagined we knew about all there 
was to know of Chinese keramics, when 
lo! the pottery of T’ang leapt to our 
attention. 
It is so, too, with our “discovery” of 
the hooked rug. A decade or so ago 
collectors knew little or nothing about 
them, although they had been in our 
careless midst for half a century and 
more, and before our eyes, not hidden 
by desert sands and in Celestial tombs 
of T’ang! 
Perhaps a decade ago the mid-ioth 
Century did not seem sufficiently re¬ 
mote to us to lend enthusiasm to other 
than our quips at mid-Victorianism, 
for which mid-Victorianism we 
should, instead, (as I think we have 
been coming to see) have been ever¬ 
lastingly grateful. The hooked rug was 
one of the pet Penates of that period. 
The hooked rug could claim no great 
antiquity; instead it must have been 
looked upon by those of the period of 
the elegant pages of “Godey’s Ladys’ 
Book” as a delightful novelty, come to 
gladden the hearts and hearths of the 
1850 ’s and thereabouts. 
I have seen hooked rugs from Ver¬ 
mont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massa¬ 
chusetts, Rhode Island, from the South, 
and from Canada whose dates have 
been affirmed by their owners to range 
from 17 QO to 1840 . But in not one of 
these instances have I been able to 
find an, authenticated hooked rug ante- 
ing the mid-ioth Century. This need 
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An American hooked rug of 
good though fairly recent 
workmanship—an oval field 
with a floral chaplet 
Made in Massachusetts, a geo¬ 
metrical design in diamonds with 
pink and geranium decorations 
in alternate rows 
