How to contact Betsey Telford-Goodwin's Rocky Mountain Quilts:
Telephone - for orders or questions - 1-207-363-6800
FedEx - 130 York Street York, Maine 03909
Email - betsey@rmquilts.com
BTG84 African American Folk Art Hooked Rug
c.1920
23 x 38 inches
New England
$3,800
I believe this original design, mostly rayon, hooked rug is African
American and created to remember the massacres of the "Red Summer"
race riots of 1919. During that summer there were nunerous race riots
that began with the Chicage riot caused by an African American boy
swimming at a "white only" beach. During that summer there were hundreds
of African Americans killed, in various riots, resulting in the name
"Red Summer". The bullseye center symbolizes this slaughtering of human life.
Constructed on burlap using rayons, knits and a very few cotton fabrics,
to create a graphic and poignantly graphic rare piece of art.
This one of a kind folk art rug has been hanging in my home for many,
many years. I have decided it is time to let someone else treasure this
art piece in their home.
Please email or call to see this rug, on approval, with free shipping,
in the privacy of your home.
