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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rpm_1969, post: 3714941, member: 18962&quot;]I&#039;m starting my first post with a new thread, I&#039;m sure there will be more to come between the various collecting interests.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some backstory on this rug: my father got it in Idaho in the late 1970s when a neighbor threw it into his back yard for the dog to sleep on, or so the story goes, and he decided to &quot;exchange&quot; it for a less interesting one. It was at his home in Washington for some years, then spent ten years on the wall of a vacation house he shared with friends in France. After they moved out, it went to my sister&#039;s in the UK, where she had no place for it, and now she sent it on to me in Berlin.</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife and I carefully spot washed a few places using a damp cloth with good success. We also did some non-invasive threading where the rug is unraveling on one edge (see photo below showing weave details) to prevent further unraveling until after lockdown when we can get it to a Turkish or Arabic rug expert for repair -- I&#039;d presume they&#039;d know how to fix it properly. We carefully hand-stitched a cotton backing onto the back top of the rug so we can hang it on the wall in our living room with a dowel at the top in a way that spreads the stress of hanging so it won&#039;t be further damaged.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father says that &quot;somebody&quot; told him it was from a tribe in Montana, possibly Crow, from the 1890s, but I don&#039;t see many rugs from that part of the country online, and those I have seen are very bright colors and much different patterns, nothing like this one. The size of the rug is 71 by 47 inches (180 x 120 cm).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway we love it, don&#039;t care about its value if any, but as academics we&#039;d love to know its approximate origin and date. Any educated opinions would be greatly welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]312519[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]312521[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]312522[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]312523[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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