The Garrett Bluenose patterns : celebrating Nova Scotia's rug hooking heritage
"In 1892, John E. Garrett (1865-1937) and his father, Frank, began to design and sell printed burlap patterns out of their home in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. John's three sons, Frank, Cecil, and Arthur, later joined Garrett's, and by 1926, their patterns came to be known as "Bluenose," for the famous Nova Scotia schooner. Over the next eighty years, Garrett's would produce hundreds of designs. John and his son Frank, who had studied commercial art...
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