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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Primitive Rug Hooking classes taught from beginners to intermediate level.
These rug hooking kits make this project much easier to complete than those before us.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Primitive rug hooking is a traditional American folk art technique of creating rich and colorful rugs from small strips of felted wool.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Rugs have appeared in Rug Hooking Magazine, Celebration X and "When Rug Hookers Reminisce", a juried exhibit held at the Wenham Museum in MA.
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Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer
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The Rug Hooker's Network originally began as a resource for Traditional and Primitive style rug hooking but has expanded to include resources for Punch and Speed Needle style rug making.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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F redericksburg Rugs specializes in quality rug hooking kits, hand-dyed wool, and rug hooking retreats in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.
Because both braiding and hooking use the same fabric scraps, there was often an overlap of techniques; hooked rugs were often finished with sturdy braided borders.
In rug hooking and folk crafting terms a heavier weight wool with a tight weave and full nap is more desireable than wool with a loose weave and sparse nap.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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Primitive rug hooking kits and supplies for rug hooking.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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The hooked rugs below were originally hooked in the 20th Century by some very talented crafts people who have continued the wonderful tradition of rug hooking.
Bell did much to foster home industries, among them the hooking of rugs for which the village of Cheticamp is today so famous.
I have been hooking rugs for 18 years and enjoy both fine shading and wide cut techniques.
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