A work made of cotton and wool, plain weave with multi-color supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet.

Table Carpet

c. 1910

Netherlands

Table carpets were fashionable furnishings in the Netherlands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Draped over a wooden table, patterned carpets added character and a sense of comfort to interiors. The design for this carpet derives from the 1904 German publication Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature), which included hundreds of illustrations cataloguing the natural world. In the border and center of the carpet, an unfurling fern, pictured in the German volume, repeats in slightly different ways.

Cotton and wool, plain weave with multi-color supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet

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