A new $70,000 rug at the Rhode Island State House has been installed to correct errors in the state seals.
According to an NBC 10 News WJAR report, when the 1,120-square-foot rug arrived at the State House in February, state officials discovered that the seals in the carpet design had the state name listed incorrectly.
The State House rug was ordered several years ago after Rhode Island voters approved changing the state name in 2020, dropping the words “and Providence Plantations” from its official name. The rug that arrived in February was created to replace the previous rug containing the former state name in the seal…