床上地毯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	床上地毯
品名（英）	Bed rug
入馆年号	1933年，33.122
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	N. L.【0 至现在】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1796
创作地区	制造于: 美国, 康涅狄格州, 科尔切斯特（Made in: United States, Connecticut, Colchester）
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尺寸	93 1/4 x 89 英寸 (236.9 x 226.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	床毯（在18世纪晚期被称为"地毯"）完全是家庭制造的产品。毛纱绒头是在手工处理的羊毛或亚麻织物的基础上进行针缝（而不是像以前所设想的那样钩住）的。最常见的是，基底是一块羊毛毯，其表面被刺绣完全遮盖。所有用于制作床毯的羊毛，如博物馆的两个例子（13.207），很可能是从当地的绵羊身上剪下来的。这些羊毛随后由地毯制造商洗涤、梳理、纺纱和染色虽然现存的一些床毯上绣有平躺在底座表面的缝线，但大多数地毯上都有一个环状的绒头，可能是剪下来的，也可能是未剪下来的。博物馆的两张床毯都有割绒面。这里所示的一个有一些未切割的随机环：表面的不均匀性似乎表明，这些环是在没有芦苇帮助的情况下制作的，以保持其高度一致，并且表面是用小剪刀或刀片修剪的与十八世纪和十九世纪早期的大多数其他刺绣床罩不同，典型床毯的大胆、超大图案。缝纫纱线的厚度以及设计成绒头时有效的设计的需要，有助于使用大型图案，并最终获得令人愉悦的外观。从一个小瓮中长出的花束的中心主题可以追溯到印度宫殿中常见的生命之树图像的影响。"生命之树"的设计启发了许多被子和被单制造商，但它从未像床上的地毯那样充满活力这张地毯是从康涅狄格州新伦敦郡科尔切斯特的乔纳森·戴明家中获得的。大多数床毯都可以追溯到康涅狄格州，但它们是在新英格兰各地制造的，已知的例子可以追溯到1720年代到1830年代。
介绍（英）	Bed rugs (referred to as "ruggs" during the late eighteenth century) are completely home-manufactured products. The wool yarn pile is needleworked (not hooked, as was once assumed) in running stitch on a base of handloomed wool or linen. Most often, the base is a wool blanket, the surface of which is entirely obscured by embroidery. All the wool used for making bed rugs such as the Museum's two examples (13.207) was most likely shorn from local sheep. The fleeces were then washed, carded, spun, and dyed by the rug maker. Although a few extant bed rugs are embroidered with stitches that lie flat to the surface of the base, the majority have a looped pile that may have been either clipped or left uncut. Both of the Museum's bed rugs have cut pile faces. The one illustrated here has some random loops left uncut: the unevenness of the surface seems to indicate that the loops were made without the aid of a reed to keep them at a uniform height and that the surface was clipped with a small scissors or blade. The bold, overscaled patterning of the typical bed rug is unlike most other embroidered bed coverings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The thickness of the sewing yarns as well as the need to create a design that would be effective when made into pile contributed to the use of large motifs and to the pleasing appearance of the end result. The central motif of a bouquet of flowers growing from an undersized urn can be traced to the influence of the Tree of Life image commonly found on Indian palampores. The Tree of Life design inspired many quilt and coverlet makers, yet it was never used with such vigor as on bed rugs. This rug was acquired from the Jonathan Deming house in Colchester, New London County, Connecticut. The majority of bed rugs have been traced to Connecticut, but they were made throughout New England, and examples are known that range in date from the 1720s to the 1830s.