FOLK 2300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Newfoundland Outport
14 Apr 2016
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Hooked rugs in newfoundland: the representation of social structure in design. The patches of color that women would sew into the burlap to make a rug would be expressive of her own innovative fancies or those of her community. Each rug was constructed in the same manner, but the individual woman determined the surface design. A woman had to major choices in the selection of a design she could adopt the community"s norms or introduce a design outside the community"s repertoire. Burlap backings that already had designs drawn on them could be purchased for simple transference from one surface to another. Two-dimensional objects were usually easier to recreate on a rug than three- dimensional objects. If the two-dimensional design source had to be enlarged or reduced it would require greater skill and innovation on the part of the maker.
