Margaret Woodhead, of Dunedin, with a rug made in the Shetland Islands by her great great-grandfather about 160 years ago. The rug is to be sent back to the Shetland Islands in June. Photo by Craig Baxter. : Vintage rug returning to motherland
Margaret Woodhead, of Dunedin, with a rug made in the Shetland Islands by her great great-grandfather about 160 years ago. The rug is to be sent back to the Shetland Islands in June. Photo by Craig Baxter. : Vintage rug returning to motherland
Vintage rug returning to motherland
A 160-year-old woollen bed rug brought from the Shetland Islands to New Zealand in the 1870s is to make the long trip home again later this year.