Description

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Learn to hook with easy step-by-step photos

Rug hooking at its simplest is pulling loops of colorful wool fabric through a piece of linen backing to create beautiful designs for the floor or wall. In Basic Rug Hooking, you will learn what tools and materials you need to get started, and how to pull your first loops. You will then be ready to try the 5 hooked projects.

About the Author

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Janet Stanley Reid has been hooking rugs for eighteen years, and for all but two of those years she has taught others the craft. She came to rug hooking after working with many other fiber arts. She specializes in wide-cut hooking and sells her work at shows. A native of New England, she lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. Judy P. Sopronyi has worked with craftspeople and crafts fro twenty years. She was the editor of Colonial Reproductions and Designs magazine and for rug hooking books for Rug Hooking magazine. She lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Alan Wycheck is an award-winning photographer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.