Embroidered rugs

American women of more means and leisure adapted the art of embroidered floorcoverings from Europe. The tent or cross-stitch was used to cover a heavy foundation material with woolen yarn.

The German settlements in Pennsylvania produced charm­ing rugs of this type, and there were probably a certain number made throughout the colonies.

In the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum in New York are two very famous needle­point rugs.

One was made by the young daughters of Judge Pliny Moore in Champlain, New York.

The girls learned to do fine needlework in their convent school in Montreal, so they decided to make a carpet for the family parlor. Wool for the yarn was grown, spun and dyed at home.