About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Marianne Strengell (Designer)
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Title
- Rug Sample
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1950–1959
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Medium
- Linen, nylon, cotton, wool, modacrylic metallic strip encased in polyester film, weft-faced plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut and uncut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe
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Dimensions
- 43.3 × 52.7 cm (17 × 20 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Marianne Strengell Hammarström
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Reference Number
- 1983.755j
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