. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 23.—Venetian carpeting, leather-trimmed mail sack, American, early igth century. The distinctive Venetian carpeting sold for covering floors was so durable that it was also used for mail sacks such as this one used on the route opened in 1815 from Rochester to Canandaigua, New York. The fabric is 22 inches wide; the multicolored stripes are formed by the warp. (In the collection of the Rochester Historical Society; Smithsonian photo P-174.) in Sheraton's Dictionary as "generally striped" (fig. 23). It also is
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 23.—Venetian carpeting, leather-trimmed mail sack, American, early igth century. The distinctive Venetian carpeting sold for covering floors was so durable that it was also used for mail sacks such as this one used on the route opened in 1815 from Rochester to Canandaigua, New York. The fabric is 22 inches wide; the multicolored stripes are formed by the warp. (In the collection of the Rochester Historical Society; Smithsonian photo P-174.) in Sheraton's Dictionary as "generally striped" (fig. 23). It also is reported to have been made in checks as well as simple stripes and to have been used mainly for stairs and passages in the 19th ;' In addition to the already available, moderately priced, nonpile carpeting, ingrain, the appearance of Venetian carpeting on the American market in the late 18th century forecast the increasing use of floor coverings and the developments in techniques and machinery for their manufacture that were to occur in the early decades of the 19th century. SAND Sand, too, served as an underfoot furnishing in 18th-century American houses. Among the reminis- cences that were collected and recorded by John F. Watson in his book Annals of Philadelphia was one of a lady who spoke of "things as they were before the war of ; In reference to households at that time, she recalled that although a carpet was '"Barbara Morris, "Textiles," The Early Victorian Period, 7830-7S60, edit. Ralph Edwards and L. G. G. Ramsey ("The Connoisseur Period Guides"; New York: Reynal and Co., 1958), p. 125. sometimes seen, "a white floor sprinkled with clean white sand, large tables and heavy high back chairs of walnut or mahogany, decorated a parlour genteelly enough for any ;"^ As to the appearance and care of this most movable kind of floor covering, and incidentally the social and economic status of the
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