This is a textile original work created by Margaret Blank.
This is a punched or hooked rug featuring a floral design and part of a brick wall. The texture is rich and tactile, composed of tightly packed loops or knots of yarn, giving it a handcrafted, rustic charm.
A richly textured textile piece. The surface is made of chunky, looped yarn — each tuft visible and slightly raised — giving the whole scene a soft, tactile quality that almost invites you to run your fingers over it. The composition reads like a simplified landscape: the lower half is a field of creamy off-white with scattered gray streaks and flecks, the yarn loops arranged to suggest the uneven surface of snow or wind-rippled ground.
Near the lower-left quadrant sits a small, dark silhouette against that pale foreground. It’s ambiguous enough to feel poetic — it could be a tiny figure, a seated person, or even an object like a sled or small boat — and a patch of deep red beneath it adds a focal point and a hint of warmth in contrast to the cool neutrals around it.
A band of darker greens and muted yellows runs across the middle, forming a low hill or distant treeline that anchors the scene. Above this, the sky is rendered in saturated, sunset hues: warm pinks, coral, and soft orange blend together, the wooly loops of each color creating a gradient that glows against the darker ridge below. The overall effect is both cozy and evocative — a handcrafted, impressionistic moment that balances quiet solitude with the comforting materiality of the fibers.
It has been created with the method of rug hooking pieces of yarn or strips of fabric in through a backing material. In this case, the backing material is burlap.
This piece was created in 2024.
The dimensions of the art is 6" x 6".
This picture is part of our "Starry Eyed" temporary exhibit, come and see it through out the months of February and March 2026.