This floral rug is hooked in a primitive style of rug hooking. Notice the scrolls in each of the four corners of the rug. It is hooked with various recycled materials including knits, cottons, yarn, etc. on burlap backing. There is binding sewn on the edge of the rug which is seen on the front of the rug and then folded over to the back. A zig zag stitch was used to attach the binding to the rug. (The original binding may have been replaced with the current binding.) The rug is faded and also fragile in some areas.
Emelyn (Chapman) Goodwin always had a pot of rags on the stove in hot dye. When the rags were dry, they were cut into strips and hooked into mats/rugs. Some of the rugs Emelyn made were sold for money or exchanged for linoleum for the floor.
When not rug hooking or dyeing rags, Emelyn was a mother and homemaker involved in the church and also enjoyed playing cards, croconole/checkers and often made ice cream for the family.
If the rug could talk, imagine what else we would learn.