A History of Tufted Rugs

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Photograph of Evelyn Wall tufting in front of the fireplace in Sunshine Cottage, Mount Berry, Georgia, 194X

Photograph of Evelyn Wall tufting in front of the fireplace in Sunshine Cottage, Mount Berry, Georgia, 194X

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Date
194X
Place
Sunshine Cottage, Mount Berry, Georgia
Held by
Berry College. Library
Collection
Berry College Historic Image Collection
Number
gbc_photographs_2638
Size
photograph
Themes
Machine tufting & Dalton, Hooked & handmade rugs

Cite this source

“Photograph of Evelyn Wall tufting in front of the fireplace in Sunshine Cottage, Mount Berry, Georgia, 194X,” 194X. gbc_photographs_2638, Berry College Historic Image Collection, Berry College. Library. dlg.usg.edu/record/gbc_photographs_2638.

Research notes

DLG description: "Evelyn Wall tufting in front of the fireplace in Sunshine Cottage, 194X". Why it matters: Dalton bedspreads: hand tufting as a craft taught or practised at Berry College (Rome, Ga.) in the 1940s. Found: Digital Library of Georgia, search "tufted", 2026-10-28.