TROY, Vt. (AP) - Carolyn Buttolph likes to like to makes things people can use. She hooks rugs, everything from pot holders to large rugs, and leads a class on rug hooking at the Vermont Quilters’ ...
Before I met Sally Charnley, I had no idea Rockford was a hotbed for legalized hooking. A whole new world opened to me when Charnley introduced me to a group of highly organized hookers who call ...
For Nancy Greene, it’s almost a form of therapy. For Leanne Sitler, it’s an art form, but so much more. Both women are hookers. OK, get your mind out of the gutter. They’re rug hookers, and they’ve ...
STANFORDVILLE – "A Collection of Hooked Rugs," presented by the arts nonprofit Creative Crossroads, opened this weekend at the Stanford Grange in Stanfordville. The free exhibition features dozens of ...
NEW GLASGOW – The New Glasgow Library , in collaboration with the Town of New Glasgow ’s 150th anniversary, has initiated a ...
What started as a poor man’s craft has morphed into a highly sought-after art form. Beginning in the 1800s, rug hooking was an art of poverty, explained expert rug restorer, author and Westwood ...
Rug hooking as a fine art nearly disappeared but was saved through the teachings of Pearl McGowen and the writings of William Wintrhop Kent. By the 1940s, it had turned into a hobby that continues to ...
From a tiny studio beside her 1880s Graton farmhouse Brigitta Phy paints pictures with fabric, hook by hook by hook, painstakingly keeping alive a fading art that dates back at least to Colonial times ...
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