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Laura M. Allen collection (Col. 979): "Hooked Rugs" scrapbook of articles, pictures and advertisements, 1920s

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Made by: Laura M. Allen (Rochester, N.Y.); Helen D. Young
Date: 1911–1929 (rug material); collection to the 1960s
Place: Rochester, New York
Held by: Winterthur Library
Number: Col. 979
Themes: Hooked & handmade rugs, Trade catalogs & marketing

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Laura M. Allen (Rochester, N.Y.); Helen D. Young. “Laura M. Allen collection (Col. 979): ‘Hooked Rugs’ scrapbook of articles, pictures and advertisements, 1920s,” 1911–1929 (rug material); collection to the 1960s. Col. 979, Winterthur Library. findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0979.htm.

Research notes

Read from the Winterthur Library finding aid (Joseph Downs Collection). Rug material: - acc. 2017x86.1, "Hooked Rugs," Mrs. Laura M. Allen, Rochester, N.Y.: scrapbook of articles, pictures and advertisements pertaining to hooked rugs, 1920s. - Folder 12: notebook "Rugs, 1911 to [blank]", labelled braided, crocheted, hooked, knotted, kelim, felt appliqué, hooked bags. Note inside: hooked rugs taught by Mrs. W. E. Raymond, Home Bureau member, Rochester. Includes a stenographer's pad of rug notes by Marguerite P. Davison. - Folder 4: two clippings on hooked rugs; an article on rug weaving by Mary M. Atwater. - acc. 2017x86.2, "Hand Weaving, 1924 to 1929": scrapbook with loom advertisements. Also Atwater–Allen correspondence 1928–36 (Shuttle-Craft Guild) and seven volumes of weavers' drafts. Why it matters: primary evidence for the 1920s hooked-rug revival as taught through home-bureau classes and sold through ads. Ask the library to scan the scrapbook's advertisements.