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A work made of wool, cotton, linen, rayon, jute and nylon, weft-faced plain weave with weft bands of pile woven from woven fringe and chenille yarn ground wefts and by supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe.

Rug Sample

1950s

Designed by Marianne Strengell Hammarström (Finnish, 1909–1998) United States

United States

Wool, cotton, linen, rayon, jute and nylon, weft-faced plain weave with weft bands of pile woven from woven fringe and chenille yarn ground wefts and by supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "Ghiordes knots;" knotted warp fringe

Textiles

Women artists