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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Garrett Bluenose Patterns: Celebrating Nova Scotia's Rug Hooking Heritage

The Garrett Bluenose Patterns: Celebrating Nova Scotia's Rug Hooking Heritage

Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia, The Teachers Branch

Paperback

Rugs

Publisher Price: $32.95

ISBN10: 177471129X
ISBN13: 9781774711293
Publisher: Nimbus Pub Ltd
Published: Nov 24 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.70 Width: 8.30 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

A colourful, photo-filled history of Nova Scotia's iconic Bluenose hooked-rug patterns, featuring step-by-step instructions for aspiring rug-hookers.

In 1892, John E. Garrett (1865 -- 1937) and his father, Frank, began to design and sell printed burlap patterns out of their home in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. John's three sons, Frank, Cecil, and Arthur, later joined Garrett's, and by 1926, their patterns came to be known as Bluenose, for the famous Nova Scotia schooner. Over the next eighty years, Garrett's would produce hundreds of designs. John and his son Frank, who had studied commercial art in New York, produced bold, artistic new designs -- florals and scrolls, geometrics, pictorials, animals, and whimsical patterns -- that stood out from the rigid, Victorian-style patterns of the past. Catalogue and mail-order sales soared, and soon Garrett's became the world's largest producer of rug-hooking patterns.

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