About This Artwork
Designed by Angelo Testa
American, 1921–1984
United States, Illinois, Chicago
"Whiskered Rug"1970s
Cotton, plain weave with supplementary wool yarns forming "hooked" cut and uncut pile; attached wool tassels embellished with plain oblique interlacing, knotting, plaiting, and wrappped with wool, hemp, silk and linen yarns
76 x 76.4 cm (29 3/4 x 30 in.)
Gift of the Estate of Marianne Willisch, 1984.1552
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