— By Deanne Fitzpatrick
Learn to blend core techniques with inspiration to create wall-worthy landscapes that are eye-catching, meaningful, and soothing to make. With this inspiring guide, you can craft your own landscape adventure in wool! Master the art of hooking the land, sea, and sky in this inspiring guide to making contemporary fiber...
— 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 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 Mark Blackburn
Buying an Oriental rug need not be confusing. This book answers the most frequent questions and offers a great introduction to this ancient and continuing weaving tradition. Nearly 900 contemporary rugs are shown and discussed from Tibet, India, China, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. Learn their history, production methods, selection...
— 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 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 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 Christine Jansen
Traditional wool crafts get a contemporary uplift with great rug hooking and wool appliqué projects perfect for beginning and advanced crafters. For rug hooking, the softness of the wool and simple technique will have you captivated with your first "hook." Wool applique techniques will make you the master of penny...