Canton matting.(Design notes)(Canton Reproductions)
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 2/1/2007
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Author: Ledes, Allison Eckardt
Straw matting was used on household floors in colonial America. During an extended visit to the colonies in the early 1750s, Israel Acrelius, pastor to the New Sweden congregation on the Delaware River, wrote that "straw carpets have lately been introduced in the towns." In May 1759 George Washington ordered "50 yards of best Floor matting" for Mount Vernon from his London agent, Robert Cary, and thirty years later he was still using straw matting on the floors at Mount Vernon. In a ...
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