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Proliferating in regions where the winters were long, the climate cold and the economy limited, American hooked rugs were traditionally made by pulling a narrow strip of cut fabric up through a foundation material with a special tool. Settling in coastal New England and Canada, the fishermen, farmers and the womenfolk who emigrated from Northern Europe, brought with them traditional crafts and a common culture that led to the evolution of handmade rugs that are now considered a significant category of American folk art. Motifs for American hooked rugs were often inspired by the maker's natural environment consisting of sea shells, fallen leaves, animals, the family dog, buildings, flowers, baskets, seascapes and landscape vignettes. From the early 1800s through the middle years of the... Read more about Hooked & Rag Rugs and Carpets ...

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A hooked rug BB4598 Size: 8'7" × 5'10" Item No: BB4598 Price: $12,000 A second quarter 20th century hooked rug, having an overall tile pattern, each tile containing three roses ...	A hooked rug BB4482 Size: 7'3" × 4'4" Item No: BB4482 Price: $11,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug, the light brown with enormous colorful curving leaves overall ...	A Hooked rug BB4339 Size: 12'2" × 9' Item No: BB4339 Price: $26,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug, with light beige and brown triangle motif tiles alternating with tiles containing ...	A Hooked rug BB4332 Size: 11'9" × 8'7" Item No: BB4332 Price: $18,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug having a navigational theme with a sun, stars, birds, a wheel and compass along ...
A Rag Rug BB3846 Size: 7'5" × 5' Item No: BB3846 Price: $12,000 A mid 20th century rag rug, the oatmeal field framed by irregular protruding stripes from the border in shades ...	An American Hooked Rug BB3622 Size: 14'1" × 8'10" Item No: BB3622 Price: $50,000 A mid 20th century American hooked tile carpet with alternating polychrome tiles of dense vertical and horizontal ...	An American Hooked rug BB3600 Size: 10' × 8' Item No: BB3600 Price: $35,000 A mid 20th century American Hooked rug having various polychrome striped tiles with scattered mushroom and seed ...	A Hooked Runner BB3585 Size: 8'8" × 3' Item No: BB3585 Price: $8,000 A mid 20th century Hooked runner, with alternating purple and beige tiles containing red floral motifs ...
An American Hooked rug BB3578 Size: 14'9" × 12'1" Item No: BB3578 Price: $48,000 A mid 20th century American Hooked tile rug, having a vibrant tile pattern with playful flowers and abstract polych ...	A Hooked Rug BB3552 Size: 13'10" × 9'8" Item No: BB3552 Price: $45,000 A mid 20th century Hooked rug, having an overall tile pattern of striated brown rectangles and ivory squares ...	A French carpet BB3514 Size: 18' × 8'8" Item No: BB3514 Price: $80,000 A mid 19th century French rug, the green field with botehs and red feathery leaves dominated by a central medallion ...	A Hooked Rug BB3453 Size: 11'9" × 8'10" Item No: BB3453 Price: $35,000 A mid 20th century Hooked rug, the camel field with a modern light brown grid design with small squares and stepped ...
An American Rag Rug BB3439 Size: 12'9" × 10'8" Item No: BB3439 Price: $32,000 A second quarter 20th century rag rug having vertical stripes in tobacco, green, beige and brown with a few wider ...	An American Rag rug BB3428 Size: 11'9" × 9'4" Item No: BB3428 Price: $40,000 A mid 20th century American rag rug having a densely striped pattern primarily in shades of red, gold and brown ...	An American Rag rug BB3392 Size: 23'4" × 14' Item No: BB3392 Price: $80,000 A mid 20th century American rag rug having a bold beige and red alternating diamond tile pattern overall within ...	A Hooked rug Size: 11'9" × 8'11" Item No: BB3371 Price: $35,000 A modern mid 20th century Hooked rug having a beige and blue gray stepped cube tile pattern overall within a black ...
A Hooked rug BB3321 Size: 7' × 7' Item No: BB3321 Price: $38,000 A second quarter 20th century hooked rug, the field with densely stacked polychrome stripes within a broad brown ...	An American Hooked rug BB3254 Size: 9'10" × 7'10" Item No: BB3254 Price: $35,000 A mid 20th century American hooked rug, the ivory field with an overall lozenge lattice formed of burgundy ...	An American Hooked rug BB3239 Size: 11'9" × 8'6" Item No: BB3239 Price: $40,000 A mid 20th century American hooked rug, the light brown field with a central overblown medallion formed of whimsica ...	A Hooked rug BB3232 Size: 14'2" × 11'3" Item No: BB3232 Price: $45,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug, the open yellow beige field with an elegant white blossom and vinery wreath around ...
An American rug BB3181 Size: 9'1" × 6'2" Item No: BB3181 Price: $6,500 An American carpet having a simple horizontal pattern in various shades of red overall ...	A Hooked rug BB3174 Size: 9' × 5'11" Item No: BB3174 Price: $9,000 A late 19th century hooked carpet, the sand field with enlarged floral bouquets around a pair of ivory lozenge ...	A Hooked rug BB3150 Size: 18'4" × 13'2" Item No: BB3150 Price: $58,000 A second quarter 20th century hooked rug, the red field with an oriental garden design with a trellis of palmettes ...	A Hooked rug BB3025 Size: 12' × 8'8" Item No: BB3025 Price: $38,000 A second quarter 20th century hooked rug, having a red, blue and beige checkered field around enlarged sand lozenge ...
An American Hooked rug Size: 29'4" × 4'5" Item No: BB3013 Price: $40,000 A narrow example from our collections second quarter 20th century American hooked rugs, having a crowded polychrome ...	A French Rag rug BB2985 Size: 16'3" × 9'7" Item No: BB2985 Price: $48,000 A second quarter 20th century French Rag Rug, the tan field with an allover pattern of rows of star-shaped ...	A European Hooked rug BB2903 Size: 8'10" × 8'8" Item No: BB2903 Price: $38,000 An early 20th century European hooked carpet, the finely-striped brown and black field with linked lozenges overall ...	A European Hooked rug BB2836 Size: 12'3" × 8'5" Item No: BB2836 Price: $28,000 An early 20th century European hooked carpet, the sand field with yellow areas beneath roses and vinery within ...
An American Rag rug BB2765 Size: 14'7" × 12'1" Item No: BB2765 Price: $22,800 American rag rug, having four columns of dense red stripes with subtle blue, brown and orange ...	An American Hooked rug BB2647 Size: 15'7" × 12'8" Item No: BB2647 Price: $38,000 A second quarter 20th century American hooked rug the ivory field with a faint tile pattern overlaid by a delicate ...	A Hooked rug BB2615 Size: 8'5" × 8'5" Item No: BB2615 Price: $45,000 An exceptional mid 20th century hooked rug having a simple field of subtle beige, sand, blue, green and brown ...	An American Hooked runner BB2612 Size: 18'10" × 3'9" Item No: BB2612 Price: $14,000 An American Hooked runner, the oatmeal field with a vertical blossoming vinery column with charm ...
A Hooked rug BB2534 Size: 9' × 5'10" Item No: BB2534 Price: $13,200 A modern second quarter 20th century hooked carpet having an overall lozenge lattice formed of green and pink paste ...	A Pair of American Hooked rugs BB2271 Size: 14' × 3'3" Item No: BB2271 Price: $35,000 An early 20th century pair of American hooked carpets, the first having unusual wavy brown stripes for the field ...	A Hooked Rug BB2039 Size: 14'9" × 10'9" Item No: BB2039 Price: $36,000 A hooked tile rug having alternating square and thinly-striped tiles with abstract ...	A Hooked Rug BB2038 Size: 14'9" × 11'8" Item No: BB2038 Price: $54,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug, the cream field with a delicate wavy line forming a tile pattern overall with each ...
A Hooked rug BB1907 Size: 6'9" × 6'5" Item No: BB1907 Price: $30,000 A second quarter 20th century hooked rug having an unusual field of swirling green and ivory stripes around ...	An American Hooked rug BB1906 Size: 9'2" × 6' Item No: BB1906 Price: $10,800 A second quarter 20th century American hooked rug, the unusual brown striated field with a curving leaf formed ...	An American Hooked rug BB1904 Size: 8'9" × 5'10" Item No: BB1904 Price: $15,600 A second quarter 20th century American hooked rug, having an overall folk-motif tile pattern formed of stepped rows ...	A Hooked rug BB1845 Size: 15'9" × 12'10" Item No: BB1845 Price: $27,000 Hooked rug, the red field with an overall oriental garden inspired-design with palmettes ...
An American Rag Rug BB1838 Size: 9'2" × 8'6" Item No: BB1838 Price: $14,400 American Rag Rug having a dense horizontal striped pattern overall in reds, browns, ivory ...	An American Hooked rug BB1490 Size: 10'8" × 5'8" Item No: BB1490 Price: $21,000 American hooked carpet having a field defined by densely linked ivory roundels containing ...	An American Hooked rug BB1390 Size: 21'10" × 13'1" Item No: BB1390 Price: $140,000 An early 20th century American Hooked carpet, the cream field dominated by a playful and colorful enlarged bouquet ...	A Hooked rug BB1146 Size: 17'2" × 11'1" Item No: BB1146 Price: $65,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug, the ivory field with an overblown lilac flowerhead center radiating playful flowers ...
A hooked rug BB1095 Size: 11'6" × 9'6" Item No: BB1095 Price: $35,000 An early 20th century hooked rug, the gray blue field with an overblown scalloped sky blue roundel containing strip ...	A hooked rug BB1068 Size: 11'2" × 9'1" Item No: BB1068 Price: $42,000 A mid 20th century hooked rug, the camel field with a tile design formed of black lines and containing delicate ...	An American Hooked rug BB1025 Size: 11'1" × 8'5" Item No: BB1025 Price: $35,000 A mid 20th century American Hooked rug, the midnight blue field dominated by an overblown roundel with a thick ...	An American hooked rug BB0984 Size: 14'10" × 11'6" Item No: BB0984 Price: $35,000 A mid 20th century American hooked rug having an allover wavy tile pattern in ivory with each tile depicting a bird ...
An American Hooked rug BB0620 Size: 8'1" × 5'9" Item No: BB0620 Price: $5,400 A second quarter 20th century American Hooked rug, with a modern allover tile pattern of alternating geometric ...	An American Hooked rug BB0436 Size: 11'11" × 8'11" Item No: BB0436 Price: $22,800 A second quarter 20th century American Hooked rug, the ivory field with a subtle mint cast, the floral sprays frame ...	A Hooked rug BB0147 Size: 19'7" × 13' Item No: BB0147 Price: $42,000 A mid-century, finely-woven hooked carpet of an Oriental vase design probably from Germany, on a red field ...

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