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Ridgefield's Keeler Tavern Museum Restores 19th-Century Hooked Rug

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- The Keeler Tavern Museum has received a newly restored 19th-century hooked rug from the Textile Conservation Workshop.

Keeler Tavern Museum Collections curator Erika Askin, left, and textile conservator Meredith Wilcox-Levine pose with the newly restored 19th-century hooked rug at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, N.Y.

Keeler Tavern Museum Collections curator Erika Askin, left, and textile conservator Meredith Wilcox-Levine pose with the newly restored 19th-century hooked rug at the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, N.Y.

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The rug and a mid-19th-century sampler made by Anna Marie Resseguie were restored thanks to community donations received through this spring’s FC Gives, a 24-hour online fundraiser sponsored by the Fairfield County Community Foundation, according to a press release.

The restoration work was done by the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, N.Y. Mounted and enclosed in a protective Plexiglas case, the rug is on display in the museum’s upstairs Assembly Room.

The Keeler Tavern Museum presents three centuries of the region’s history through the lives of the families that occupied the site starting in 1713. It offers docent-led tours of its period-furnished building. For more information, go here.

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