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Description: | Ali Rhind is a local textile artist working in new ways with a traditional technique. Although used as a form of upholstery here, this technique is traditionally associated with rugs, referred to as rag-rug making. Rag-rug making was popular in the North East of England from about 1850, flourishing during the depression in the 1920s and 1930s while it was dying out in many other parts of the country. At this time the hearth was the centre of the home with the fireside mat, taking pride of place. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | North East makers living in the North East craft wood home life other media made in the North East textiles makers contemporary craft | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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