Carpet square
Maker & role
Unknown, Manufacturer
Production date
1920s
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Measurements
0 - Whole, L: 482 x W: 343cm (L: 4820 x W: 3430mm)
Credit line
Gift, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, 1987
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
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Carpet square, by unknown manufacturer, 1920s
Description
This wool machine-made seamless Axminster carpet square is located in the Dining Room at Rouse Hill Estate. Around 1960 when several of the existing floor coverings had become worn, Gerald Terry (1904-1999) purchased a number of second-hand carpets for the house at auction in Parramatta. Another carpet square of the same design but shorter, was installed in Bedroom 1. A very worn carpet square (see R87/169), located in the Drawing Room from the late nineteenth century, was moved to the Dining Room probably sometime between the death of Kathleen Rouse in 1932 and 1940. After 1960, this worn carpet square became the underlay for the current Dining Room carpet.
Accession number
R87/165
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