They can be fine art or as practical as a potholder. While the origins of hooked rugs date to the Vikings, modern rug hooking really was born here in New England. With Hook in Hand, which opened in ...

SELINSGROVE -- After a long day at the office, Ruth Roush would come home and hook rugs. What began as a hobby evolved into a long-time avocation. "You could say I was a hooker for 50 years," she said ...

From a tiny studio beside her 1880s Graton farmhouse Brigitta Phy paints pictures with fabric, hook by hook by hook, painstakingly keeping alive a fading art that dates back at least to Colonial times ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Originally a pastime for sailors on long-distance voyages in the 1800s, rug hooking was brought into popular culture around the 1940s by Pearl McGown in Massachusetts. Her ...

CABOT, Vt. (WCAX) - Cabot’s Sandy Ducharme has loved fiber arts since she was a little girl. “Learning to sew, knit, crochet,” she said. With a family full of fiber artists, it comes as no surprise.

Rug hooking fits into the “waste not, want not” mentality. Using recycled wool from clothing and remnants from textile mills, rug hooking was once common in households along the eastern seaboard in ...

The centuries-old art of hand-crafted rug hooking is making a comeback, thanks to the hardworking members of the Pearl McGown Hookcrafters, Ocala Chapter 120. “Hooking came from Europe in the form of ...

DAVENPORT, Ia. – A length of burlap-colored linen is stretched taut across a square wooden frame on a pedestal. In one hand, Beth Anne Smiley holds a thin strip of colorful wool under the linen, and ...

For Nancy Greene, it’s almost a form of therapy. For Leanne Sitler, it’s an art form, but so much more. Both women are hookers. OK, get your mind out of the gutter. They’re rug hookers, and they’ve ...

Shown here is the Ladder Stripe Wool Rug. Above: Armadillo rugs are made entirely in natural materials such as jute, wool, silk, cotton, linen. Shown here is the Agra Rug. Above: Peace Industry Felt ...