A collection of 14 easy projects that helps you to learn the craft of rug hooking, from a large rug or wall hanging to a small fashionable purse.
Rug hooking tools and equipment made simple, from advice on choosing the perfect wool to finishing your hooked rug. Features 8 projects with patterns and complete instructions.
Design Basics for Rug Hookers by Susan L. Feller showcases design elements every rug hooker should know. She covers how to develop an appealing design and provides lessons on colour and contrast as well as balance and movement. The design of the rug is determined by more than the subject matter alone. Susan teaches readers how to use different textures and patterns as design tools when making their own pieces of art. A free pattern pull-out is included with each book that rug hookers can use to...
Judy Carter, renowned rug hooker specialising in hooking animals, has put together a book with her best tips and techniques for creating realistic animals in Hooking Animals. She includes a range of animal species whether you want to hook your favourite wild animal or family pet using either wide- or fine-cut wool strips. Judy provides step-by-step instructions for all stages of the rug hooking process from the initial designs to translating that design into a finished creation. She covers the...
From Desert and Oasis
by G G O'Bannon, Donald Windham, William U Eiland, and George W O'Bannon
Rugs & Pts: the Story of the Navajo Weaving and the Role of the Indian Trader
by H L James
Looks at the history of the Navajo and their rugs, describes how the rugs are made, and discusses the influence of trading posts.
This is a revised, expanded, and updated version of Marian Rodee's 1981 classic 'Old Navajo Rugs: Their Development from 1900 to 1940'. Designed for the general reader, museum goer, or collector, it offers a guide to identifying and dating rugs by means of weaving materials. Wool quality, the author explains, is the single most important clue to the date of a rug's manufacture. Rodee also provides historical background on the great Navajo weavers and especially on the traders who bought rugs fro...
Kawaii Doodle Coloring Book for Adults
by Adult Coloring Pages and Unicorn Coloring
Hook, punch, and poke your way to the popular primitive look! Get a complete introduction to three super-simple crafts: rug hooking, punchneedle embroidery, and needle felting.
Full-colour American Indian Design for Needlepoint Rugs
by Dorothy Story
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 theme-related project, others are part of a series or theme explored by an individual artist. View such impressive collections as "The Alphabet of Sheep" by Patty Yoder, "Art Rugs: The 'A...
Floorcloths can transform a drab room into a showcase! Economical and relatively easy to make, floorcloths can be embellished with paper or fabric decoupage, painting, stamping, stenciling...all the most popular craft techniques.
Join us as we celebrate our wonderful world through the eyes of fibre artist Karen Miller and her hooked rugs! You won't want to miss this guide through the landscapes of the world. Wherever Karen goes, she is inspired by what she sees around her and uses those bits of inspiration later in her hooked rugs. Her travels, both around her native Canada and far away overseas, inform her work and Karen's work inspires us all to keep our own eyes open to the world. Whether it is the surf crashing at th...