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<p>[QUOTE="Joan, post: 9552569, member: 5398"]To me it looks like an Arts and Crafts era embroidery—I think it’s very attractive. The design, colors, and fabric bring to mind images of it draped across a long Arts and Crafts mission oak table or sideboard with a display of hand-hammered copper pieces or matte green pottery from the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn’t find anything similar to it online, so this is just my non-professional opinion based on a few pieces of Arts and Crafts embroidery on dark linen that I’ve purchased over the years (now packed away).</p><p><br /></p><p>The hand-loomed fabric could be black walnut dyed. I don’t know where this runner was purchased, but black walnut trees are native to North America, and both Native Americans and early settlers made dye from the trees and nuts. I don’t think the runner is Native American, however.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Joan, post: 9552569, member: 5398"]To me it looks like an Arts and Crafts era embroidery—I think it’s very attractive. The design, colors, and fabric bring to mind images of it draped across a long Arts and Crafts mission oak table or sideboard with a display of hand-hammered copper pieces or matte green pottery from the period. I couldn’t find anything similar to it online, so this is just my non-professional opinion based on a few pieces of Arts and Crafts embroidery on dark linen that I’ve purchased over the years (now packed away). The hand-loomed fabric could be black walnut dyed. I don’t know where this runner was purchased, but black walnut trees are native to North America, and both Native Americans and early settlers made dye from the trees and nuts. I don’t think the runner is Native American, however.[/QUOTE]
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