Hooked Rug with Kittens

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hooked rug with Kittens - Sold
Titled "Old Friends"
American, c. 1910-1920
Cottons hooked on burlap
28.5 x 39 inches

An icon in American hooked rugs; this rug is established as one of the most compelling folk art images and phrases in this medium. As the Kopps of America Hurrah and authors of American Hooked and Sewn Rugs once stated, "The name of your rug says it all."

Illustrated
Country Living Magazine, December-January 1980.
Mary Emmerling, Collecting American Country (1983), frontispiece.
Joel and Kate Kopp, American Hooked and Sewn Rugs: Folk Art Underfoot (1995), p.119, fig. 207.

Provenance
The late Judy Lenett, Woodstock, Vermont
Kathy Schoemer, Acworth, New Hampshire

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