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ST AUSTELL PARISH

ST AUSTELL PARISH

  • Number AH381

  • Type Village

  • Material Wool

  • Style Medallion

  • Origin Malayer

  • Size 177 X 125

  • Age 1890

Story

How peculiar! I immediately bought this charming Malayer when a Bavarian collector offered it to me. It came with a graceful design and charming colors-- and a rather puzzling inscription in each end border .. which turned out to read ST AUSTELL PARISH. That alerted me to the rug's past history as being in a parish church, somewhere in England. Some historical digging led me to the little village of St Austell in Cornwall, famous for its 13th Century Parish Church that celebrated a 6th Century Cornish saint, St Austol, whose feast day falls on .. my birthday! Karma.

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