Rug – Wildflower

The wildflower rug was designed by Sophia May Osborne and completed by the Crafts Guild of Manitoba Rug Hooking Group. The wool was hand dyed by C. A. MacTaggart. The rug was started in October 1944, completed at the end of 1945, and was displayed at the Guild’s December meeting. The flower blocks were originally organized to hang the rug in portrait orientation. When the Guild opened the Mary MacLeod Room at its Kennedy building in 1956, the rug was displayed on the wall and partially blocked by a couch. In 1959 Guild executives approved a request from the Rug Hooking Group to dismantle the bottom two rows of the rug and reattach them on the side, so that the rug could hang in landscape orientation. Two blocks are different in the original rug: the anemones were originally clover, and the orange lilies in the top left corner were originally thistle. Flowers (left to right, top to bottom): orange lily, wild rose, cone flower, marigold, columbine, iris, lady slipper, anemone, orange lily, prairie fire, prairie crocus, and goldenrod.

MCML also holds handmade patterns for this rug.