Rug fragment (Ingrain rug fragment)

Description

The Danvers Carpet Company (also called the Eagle Carpet Company), located in Danvers, Massachusetts, manufactured this ingrain carpet between 1847 and 1880. This carpet fragment is double woven wool with off-white, maroon, and pink fibers. The woven design is a full drop repeat pattern of crisscrossing vines. This fragment appears to be from the end of the carpet, as the narrow off-white bands at the edges are not part of the pattern. This object is one of a large group transferred to Winterthur from the American Textile History Museum when it closed in 2017.