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The art of rug hooking.
Buttolph urges anyone interested in the history of run hooking to check out american hooked and sewn rugs.
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If you love to sew and crochet you may just love the art of rug hooking.
Linda rae coughlin is a textile artist who uses recycled discarded and vintage textiles to create hooked rugs and stitched art.
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Rug hooking is both an art and a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap linen or rug warp the loops are pulled through the backing material by using a crochet type hook mounted in a handle usually wood for leverage in contrast latch hooking uses a hinged hook to form a knotted pile from short pre cut pieces of yarn.
This site is decicated to the promotion and continuing growth of rug hooking fiber art as an art form.
Rug hooking classes rug hooking kits rug hooking patterns one of a kind hooked rugs artistic history and rug hooking news and ideas and a creative journal of rug hooking eggy would like to welcome you to her website and share her love of rug hooking wool dyeing and the teaching of this art form.
A hook is used to pull these loops through thus the name rug hooking.
Atha is the association of traditional hooking artists.
There is evidence of rug hooking techniques in rag rugs made by the vikings.
Some rug hookers use multi media to create three dimensional art works to display.
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It is believed that rug hooking as a popular home art s origin is.
The art of rug hooking hardcover december 31 1998 by anne d.