Fabulous Old Checkerboard Folk Art Hooked Rug, 29 x 48 Inches curious book something about the angled ramp

something about the angled ramp on the front side together together with the open square at center and the pitch of the green roof just totally does it for me

Signed on the bottom KM

together with the way the wear progresses toward the point

I love the radial stitching over the olive green velvet

And then too there were multiple generations of Dummers who had their hands in all of this

Fabulous Old Checkerboard Folk Art Hooked Rug, 29 x 48 Inches curious book something about the angled rampThe more I'm out looking at things, the more the fields of things attracting me grows. Hooked rugs are not something Ive dipped into much, in part because the very singular ones I really fall in love with tend to be well beyond my reach. But then theres one like this, just all about color and pattern and labor, satisfying to my eye like building blocks and color charts, and tactile to boot. I of course also love it for its moments of disruption and