Featured Mats
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NBMR2018.7.3 | mat
Traditionally in the production of a mat, carrying the wool over loops on the reverse side would cause excessive wear when it was used on the floor. In this instance, the maker's instructor, Lil Harley, allowed the creation of individual seeds on the pomegranate motifs because the mat was intended for use as a cover on a coffee table. This is a meticulous rendition of a commercial pattern was made from cut cashmere coats and features a binding tape that was dyed with onion skins. The maker studied mat hooking from 1979 to 1988.
Traditionally in the production of a mat, carrying the wool over loops on the reverse side would cause excessive wear when it was used on the floor. In this instance, the maker's instructor, Lil Harley, allowed the creation of individual seeds on the pomegranate motifs because the mat was intended for use as a cover on a coffee table. This is a meticulous rendition of a commercial pattern was made from cut cashmere coats and features a binding tape that was dyed with onion skins. The maker studied mat hooking from 1979 to 1988.
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NBMR2017.17.1 | mat
This mat is an exceptional example of raised and sculpted motifs. They are accentuated by the directional hooking of the neutral background. The owner, remembered that in his early years (1940s) he remembered seeing the maker, his mother and his grandmother hooking together in the evenings.
This mat is an exceptional example of raised and sculpted motifs. They are accentuated by the directional hooking of the neutral background. The owner, remembered that in his early years (1940s) he remembered seeing the maker, his mother and his grandmother hooking together in the evenings.
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NBMR2012.23.1 | mat
This mat features an impressive central motif of sculpted flowers accentuated by a restrained background. Skilfully and carefully hooked, a technique that the maker learned from Marie‑Louise Allard Blanchard, who operated a well‑known textile business, in Caraquet, NB.
This mat features an impressive central motif of sculpted flowers accentuated by a restrained background. Skilfully and carefully hooked, a technique that the maker learned from Marie‑Louise Allard Blanchard, who operated a well‑known textile business, in Caraquet, NB.
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NBMR2009.4.2 | mat
This mat was designed by the hooker as a memorial to her grandmother and she used her grandmother's dishes as the source for the design.This mat was exhibited at the annual school of the Nova Scotia Rug Hooking Guild. It is an excellent interpretation of a painted porcelain pattern.
This mat was designed by the hooker as a memorial to her grandmother and she used her grandmother's dishes as the source for the design.This mat was exhibited at the annual school of the Nova Scotia Rug Hooking Guild. It is an excellent interpretation of a painted porcelain pattern.
