Just hooked rugs

Everywhere we went in Newfoundland, we saw beautiful hand-hooked mats.  Some were new; most were well-loved and had found a new use in the exhibit rooms.   Today it's the old ones that were made of necessity for warmth but also to add beauty to  the harsh reality of a Newfoundland winter. 

Hanging on a wall in the visitors' center in Trinity...

 In the kitchen of a home in Trinity...

In the room of the apprentice lighthouse-keeper at Cape Bonavista...

In the children's room at Cape Bonavista lighthouse...this was one of a pair that were identical. 

same place ...

Lighthouse-keeper and his wife's room...

Office in the light-house at Lobster Cove...

Bedroom at the Mudge family residence at Broom Point... the flower under the mat are on a piece linoleum. 

Most of these room displays looked as though the people had just walked out and would return in a few minutes.  The rugs had been walked on by many feet.  There were even rugs down where we walked.  I feel happy in my decision to have my own hooked mats walked on.  That's what they're meant for.  










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