Lillian Mosseller

Lillian Mosseller
Born
Lillian Mills Smith

1897 (1897)
North Carolina, U.S.
Died1992 (aged 94–95)
Saluda, North Carolina, U.S.
OccupationsHooked rug master maker, visual artist, business owner
Children4

Lillian Mosseller (1897 – 1992), also known as Lillian Mills Mosseller, was an American master rug maker and visual artist.[1][2] She founded in 1926 the Mills–Mosseller Studio in North Carolina. During the Great Depression, Lillian created watercolor drawings of hooked rugs for the Index of American Design, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[3]

Mosseller's son Ronald Mosseller used wool-weaving processes developed by Lillian, until the studio stopped production in the 2010s.[4]

A hooked rug made by Lillian Mosseller in the living room at Little White House, in the Warm Springs Historic District, Georgia
A hooked rug made by Lillian Mosseller in the living room at Little White House, in the Warm Springs Historic District, Georgia

According to oral history, in 1945 when U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered a fatal stroke at Warm Springs, Roosevelt was seated on a rug made by Mosseller.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Fowler, Cynthia (2017). Hooked Rugs: "Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design ". Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-351-56353-6.
  2. ↑ Historic Saluda Committee (June 8, 2015). Saluda. Arcadia Publishing. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4396-5172-8.
  3. ↑ "Lillian M. Mosseller". National Gallery of Art (NGA). Retrieved March 5, 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Ronald Mosseller". Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
  5. ↑ Annie Lee Singletary (March 1, 1968). "Painters in Wool". Retrieved March 22, 2026.
  6. ↑ Lillian Mills Mosseller (April 1977). "The President's Rug". Retrieved March 22, 2026.
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