About embroidered rugs

The heavy canvas foundation was bought in Montreal and the carpet was made in several strips and sewed together. It is about eighteen feet square and there are more than a million and a half stitches in it.

This ambitious under­taking took four years to finish, and was proudly installed in 1812.

The design is an all-over diamond lattice of ivory bands with brown roses on a greenish tan field. It was probably inspired by a French brocade.

Mrs. Moore's granddaughter wrote that the workers were "perplexed for border, adapted design from cotton handkerchiefs stamped with border of shells that were the stock of a peddler."