. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 15.—Floor covering, American, early igth century. This woven wool carpeting used by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut, consists of two 36-inch pieces sewed together and bound at one end with printed cotton fabric. On one side of the carpeting the large and small squares are green; the dividing bars are a mixture of yellow and orange. On the other side, the colors are reversed. (USNM 28810; Smithsonian photo 47090-C.) The Copp family carpet is of single-cloth construc- tion woven in 36-inch widths and has a reversible pattern
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 15.—Floor covering, American, early igth century. This woven wool carpeting used by the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut, consists of two 36-inch pieces sewed together and bound at one end with printed cotton fabric. On one side of the carpeting the large and small squares are green; the dividing bars are a mixture of yellow and orange. On the other side, the colors are reversed. (USNM 28810; Smithsonian photo 47090-C.) The Copp family carpet is of single-cloth construc- tion woven in 36-inch widths and has a reversible pattern of squares in shades of grayed greens and dulled yellows and oranges. Some of it is in individual pieces and some is sewed together, indicating that at one time it was a large or room-size carpet. This carpeting cannot, of course, be considered ingrain in the strictest sense of the name since it is of single- rather than double-cloth construction. Nevertheless, the fact that the carpeting is reversible is of interest insofar as it may provide a clue to a type of pattern that might have been made in a two-ply construction and was intended for use underfoot. Since the carpet is reversible, the ground color might be either green or yellow and orange according to one's desire. Simi- larly, the predominant color of the carpets already mentioned with "black & green grounds" would have been dependent upon which surface faced up at a given time. Other colors that might have been used for ingrain carpets in the 18th century are suggested by two references from Irish newspapers. One, an ad- vertisement in the Dublin Gazette of 1762, mentioned scarlet and madder-red Scotch carpeting.'^ The other, a notice of 1764 in the Freeman's Journal on December 4, mentioned "Black and Yellow Bird Eye pattern" floor coverings.*" The patterns of most ingrains were probably simple, '9 Ada K. Longfield, "Some Eighteenth Century Dublin Carpet-Makers," The Burlingto
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