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A sea eagle on a rock, with a gray Maine sky behind, is 
surrounded by a border of brilliant blue, red and orange. 
This and the other illustrations are shown by courtesy of 
the Anderson Galleries 
Hooked Rugs 
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not lead one to dismiss hooked rugs as 
lacking in interest, for, more and more, 
we are coming to realize that our col¬ 
lecting eye can take pleasure in objects 
made by American craftsmen, of that day. 
In. a recent catalogue of old hooked 
rugs issued by the Anderson Galleries, 
New York, appeared these verses, stated 
to have been found in an old New 
England attic. While I suspect the at¬ 
tic to have been older than the poem, 
it is interesting as perhaps a unique bit 
of hooked rug poesy, and it suggests, 
what undoubtedly is a fact, that hooked 
rugs, like the silk “crazy quilts” of yore, 
were often composed of bits of fabric 
having sentimental attachment like the 
uniform of the Bunker Hill hero men¬ 
tioned in the following: 
THE REVOLUTIONARY HOOKED RUG 
“When Dad came back from Bunker 
Hill, 
And the colonies were free, 
He hung his musket over the shelf 
And his sword on the saddle tree. 
His officer’s coat and his soiled buff 
vest, 
His pants and his muffings snug, 
He lovingly laid on Granma’s lap, 
With his old red mits and his woolen 
cap, 
To be put in a grand hooked rug.” 
“The rug was hooked on a linen, 
ground, 
With a border of roses red, 
And there and here it was splashed 
with a tear 
For her boy who had fought and bled. 
Lexington, Concord, and Valley 
Forge, till Monmouth’s bloody fight, 
'Twas there he fell in a fire of hell, 
When victory was in sight. 
We have cherished that rug for many 
a year, 
No foot on its flowers would tread, 
‘Twas Granma’s monument to her 
boy, 
Who for liberty fought and bled.” 
The author of these lines was not 
given,, but we can I think, safely assume 
that they were not from the pen of 
Whittier, Bryant or Longfellow. The 
chronology they suggest is not quite so 
convincing as that of the really delect¬ 
able but unblushingly truthful rug, 
dated 1895 which was mentioned in the 
same catalogue and on exhibition,, a rug 
measuring 30 x 49 inches, the remark¬ 
able handiwork of a Braintree, Massa¬ 
chusetts lady of some ninety summers, 
“hooked” by her as a birthday gift for 
her great-great-grandchild. 
Hooked rugs, taken, as a whole, very 
definitely proclaim their period. A cer¬ 
tain “flambuoyance” and “exuberance” 
in design, such as the hooked rug gen¬ 
erally presents, is in n,o sense compati¬ 
ble with the pre-Nineteenth Century 
spirit in American textiles. I have seen 
hooked rugs bearing “architectural” de¬ 
signs and credited to the 18 th Century, 
although their motifs clearly betrayed 
design origin in the architectural styles 
of the post-Civil War period. I do 
not wish to say that there are no such 
things as 18th Century hooked rugs, 
or that the art of “hooking” was un¬ 
known before the 19th; I can only say 
that I have not seen any authentic pre- 
Revolutionary hooked rugs, and that 
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