— By Mary Elva Congleton Erf
Learn how to make colorful, gorgeously patterned rugs using the 200-year-old techniques of the Shakers. The author researched and analyzed textiles at five historic Shaker village sites before developing a method to create new versions of these classics. You’ll learn how ten original rugs were woven and then get detailed...
— By Janice Sonnen
An illustrated guide to the traditional craft of penny rug making, with step-by-step instructions and patterns help you create classic treasures. Rug hookers, seamstresses, and all who love traditional textile crafts will delight in this book, examining a much-loved but little-published historic art form of penny rugs. Learn the history...
— By H.L. James
H.L. James' classic study of the Navajo rug and the trading posts associated with each unique style. New information and an entirely different design for this updated edition help explain and display the beauty and craft of the Navajo Indians. Illustrated with 106 color images, many black-and-white photographs and drawings,...
— By H.L. James
H.L. James' classic study of the Navajo rug and the trading posts associated with each unique style. New information and an entirely different design for this updated edition help explain and display the beauty and craft of the Navajo Indians. Illustrated with 106 color images, many black-and-white photographs and drawings,...
— By Susan Gomersall
For those seeking inspiration from these striking, tribal rug designs and those who want to own them, this is the perfect guide. It's packed with 235 big, striking color photos, and simply presented as a guide for both would-be buyers and for rug owners seeking the story behind their precious...
— By Patricia T. Herr
Rug hooking has been part of American women's household tasks for a long time. In southeast Pennsylvania, frugal sewers saved and shared their textile scraps to create useful, pretty rugs, especially in the late 19th and 20th centuries. To document the region's hooked rug arts, The Heritage Center of Lancaster...
— By Amy Oxford and Photographs by Cynthia McAdoo
More than 450 designs to inspire you! Taking chances with hooked rugs--those cozy accessories of hearth and home--is just what members of Vermont's Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild do best. They tackle unconventional subjects, delight in using unheard-of fibers, and love the challenge of designing their own contemporary work. At...
— By Amy Oxford and Photographs by Cynthia McAdoo
More than 450 designs to inspire you! Taking chances with hooked rugs--those cozy accessories of hearth and home--is just what members of Vermont's Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild do best. They tackle unconventional subjects, delight in using unheard-of fibers, and love the challenge of designing their own contemporary work. At...
— By Jessie A. Turbayne
For collectors, crafters, and antiques experts, the colorful history and traditional designs--plus how-to! This fascinating guide preserves, for a new generation of interest in hooked rugs, the historical background of the designs. Plus, enjoy the clear instructions for picking up some burlap, wool rags, and a rug hook, and making a...
— By Linda Rae Coughlin
This beautiful book features an exciting and wonderfully diverse selection of over 475 rugs created by 270 of today's contemporary rug hooking artists. These meticulously crafted and often evocative rugs all relate to specific themes or series. Some were made by a group of artists joining together to complete a...