Three dollars a square foot is the average price of these hooked rugs, proudly displayed by an Acadian woman. The price is no measure of the long tiresome homework involved in their manufacture. “Hooked” rugs, an old Nova Scotian handicraft, are made with a hooklike crocheting needle
Artist
Lou Stoumen
(1917 - 1991)
Dateca. 1939
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage Size: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.1 × 19.4 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Object number2020.12.89
On View
Not on viewWinslow Homer
July 15, 1865