Hooking with wide cut strip--tips and techniques from the expert Making new rugs look old Color planning for primitive rugs Primitive motifs for your wide-cut rug Hooking details and lettering with wide cuts
Import & Export of Hand Knotted Oriental Rugs Part I
by Nasim Yousaf
In writing this book, the author has used over two and a half decades of his knowledge and experience in international trade. This is an extremely practical trade resource for new entrepreneurs, importers, exporters, business executives, students, and others. This publication guides entrepreneurs on how to import and export hand knotted oriental rugs. It also benefits affluent end-consumers as well as furniture and home furnishing retailers, who wish to avoid middlemen and purchase rugs directl...
In this book you will find all the information and design inspiration you need to make your own fashionable canvas floor rugs. It includes work by 65 artists in addition to eight specific projects each fully illustrated and described in step-by-step detail. The process is simple: start with a piece of canvas, brush on a quick layer of primer, paint, stencil or sponge on some water-based paint and then seal everything with an application of polyurethane. Techniques include: priming the canvas; ap...
Silk Stocking Mats: Hooked Mats of the Grenfell Mission
by Paula Laverty
Rich colours and arresting designs capture the mood of celebration and joy that characterizes this photographic record of contemporary religious works of art. Chosen for their excellence in design and stitchery, these works represent the achievements of artists who have created art, in fabric, for places of worship. This book celebrates this important artistic expression, a significant part of our heritage. Pieces are selected from communities across Canada: from a small parish on a Micmac rese...
Of Wool And Loom: The Tradition Of Tibetan Rugs
by Trinley Chodrak and Kesang Tashi
From the perspective of Western culture, it is not always easy to understand the complexities of the antique Oriental carpet. Part of the fascination lies in its dual nature as a simple, even humble artifact intended to be used in a variety of ways as well as a sophisticated artistic object with ancient designs unfamiliar to us. Providing the tools to understand the decorative and technical aspects of a carpet, including its geographic area of production, The Carpet: Origins, Art and History is...
Re-create the look of old-fashioned rugs with today's techniques! It's easy with this start-to-finish guide, plus 11 fun step-by-step projects.
Rug hooking is an art form that's a joy to create. Over 570 color photographs chronicle a wide variety of rugs being hooked today, putting to rest any notion that no one hooks rugs anymore. Contemporary hooking artists from all over the U.S., Canada, and beyond present hooked abstract designs, animals, commemorative pieces, landscapes, portraits, nautical themes, traditional patterns, and primitive styles. They include more than floor coverings; some are wall hangings and others hooked furniture...
