On Sunday, May 1 from 1 to 4 p.m., fiber artists Lucy Walsh and Sharon Ballard will display their handcrafted hooked rugs at the Bouman-Stickney Farmstead. Walsh and Ballard will be on-hand to share ...

Kramer said intricate designs can be very time consuming, but hookers develop a rhythm to their craft. When setting a price for a hooked rug, she said things like the complexity of the design, the ...

GRAND HAVEN - More than 200 years ago, rug hooking was was considered a craft of the poor. The process involves pulling strips of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven material using a crochet-type ...

Click to open image viewer. Design for hooked rug with geometric pattern. Overall rectangular format with areas of orange, green, and white arranged in asymmetrical composition. At three points, ...

If you think you can’t muster any enthusiasm for hooked rugs, an exhibit at the Shelburne Museum this summer could change your mind: “Patty Yoder: Rugs of the Black House Farm.” Yoder, late of ...

The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art-Ligonier Valley exhibition, “A Celebration of Texture and Pattern: Hooked Rugs and Historic Coverlets,” features a collaboration between Ligonier resident Barb ...

At first, primitive rug hooking was practiced mainly by the poorer classes, but it grew into an art form prized by all, Smiley explains. People used established patterns as well as those of their own ...

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Rug hooking is a traditional textile practice, and of late — thanks in part to many people being home because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it's been enjoying a renaissance in the Newfoundland and ...