American and Canadian Rugs
Here we have the same story. Rugs wear out. There remain only enough very early examples of button rugs, patchwork rugs and the like to tell us what types were made in American pioneer days.
These are treasured by collectors and not used on the floor. In the 1930's, there was an enormous demand for Early American furnishings. New England and Canada were combed for old hooked rugs.
None of these nineteenth century rugs are antiques if you adhere to the hundred-year-old definition, but some of them are very old and very beautiful.
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