Molly Nye Tobey Rugs

Molly nye tobey designs for the mid century home spotlights the creative range of pioneering american designer and fiber artist molly nye tobey 1893 1984.
Molly nye tobey rugs. Most of the pieces in these collections were produced in nineteenth century new england. Toby has many of her rugs exhibited at the smithsonian and several other museums. Bringing together a selection of vibrant hooked rugs alongside preparatory watercolors sketches and other ephemera carpet diem. Molly nye tobey 1893 1984 created a masterpiece series of 50 statehood rugs between 1046 and 1961.
The new museum display also includes a functioning 1918 victrola with records a lace pattern book from rhode island laceworks as well as a lace cap collars and camisole and a hand hooked rug by famed artist molly nye tobey who lived in barrington for sixty years. Molly nye toby rhode island 1893 1984 two geometric design folk art hooked rugs fabric mrs. In the 1940s artist molly nye tobey broadened the craft notes kory rogers associate curator of shelburne museum in shelburne vermont. Condition the ivory colored rug showing end wear otherwise good condition.
Toby has many of her rugs exhibited at the smithsonian and several other museums. However important twentieth century examples include a remarkable group of fifty statehood rugs by molly nye tobey 1893 1984 and a collection of contemporary hooked rugs by patty yoder 1943 2005. Molly nye tobyrhode island 1893 1984a group of three hooked rugs decorated with flower pots florals and a small abstract design fabricmrs. Now in the collection of the shelburne museum this 40 x 147 hooked rug was exhibited at the 1942 women s international exposition of arts and industries where it was awarded first.
Toby has many of her rugs exhibited at the smithsonian and several other museums. Molly nye toby rhode island 1893 1984 two hooked rugs one depicting crows other with geometric shapes fabric mrs. Tobey learned to hook rugs from her grandmothers and began selling state themed hooked rugs from her rhode island antiques store. This next rug maker unknown is circa 1955.
Molly nye toby rhode island 1893 1984 repeated circular pattern over a red ground darkening to brown along the edge fabric mrs. This paper describes a new approach to visual compensation for hooked rugs developed during the treatment of molly nye tobey s 1942 victory garden rug. Toby has many of her rugs exhibited and in holdings at the smithsonian several other museums and private collections largest measures 4 6 x 3 3 from the molly nye tobey estate.