More about these rugs is here.
Using rag-rug techniques for artwork for walls and elsewhere - sometimes even for on the floor
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Showing posts with label resources. Show all posts
7 May 2011
A wonderful resource
If you don't know it already, have a look at The Textile Blog thetextileblog.blogspot.com- it's full of interesting information on all sorts of textiles, including rugs, like this one by Joseph Maria Olbrich, c1900 - 
More about these rugs is here.
More about these rugs is here.
18 February 2011
Hooking cookies
Moose River Hooker Cookies (Oatcakes)
3 cups flour
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup sugar
1 lb 20/80 spread or butter
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup water
Mix above ingredients well. Divide in half. Sprinkle 12 x 15 cookie sheet with bran flakes. Roll 1/2 of dough flat with rolling pin. Sprinkle top with bran. (Same for other half.) Bake at 350 for 20 min.
From the website of the Moose River Rug Hooking Studio, in Clementsport, Nova Scotia, Canada. Too much sugar in them to be the oatcakes we know in the UK!
1 February 2011
Hooked - on Books
This Saturday, 5 February, is our next meeting (see sidebar for details) - and it's also a day of action around the country to highlight the plight of public libraries. Over 400 are set to be shut - and once a library is shut, it's gone ... So, think about what you can do to support those buildings that let you read books freely, and would have all the new books if only they could afford it -- including books about craft of course - as well as being an important community resource.
For information about Save Our Libraries day - and to share your own story - go to the Voices for the Library website.
(I hope you'll excuse me beating this drum here, but I'm a former librarian and apart from this professional interest, in my poor-student and single-parent days, being able to use libraries meant a LOT to me!)
The "hooked" library in the photo is in Madison, New Hampshire.
9 January 2011
Our Meeting
I enjoyed the meeting at Crafts Central yesterday. It was so good to be with others interested in the craft of Rug Hooking.
With six of us each working on a different project, covering various techniques, it helped make the 'get together' a lively event.
Craft Central is an interesting building and the Art Exhibition we visited on the ground floor was a bonus.
I shall look forward to our next meeting in February. Maybe in the meantime we'll find others who wish to join this active group.
Happy Hooking - Jill
With six of us each working on a different project, covering various techniques, it helped make the 'get together' a lively event.
Craft Central is an interesting building and the Art Exhibition we visited on the ground floor was a bonus.
I shall look forward to our next meeting in February. Maybe in the meantime we'll find others who wish to join this active group.
Happy Hooking - Jill
1 January 2011
Rag Rug Inspirations book
Rag Rug Inspirations by Juliet Bawden, published in 1996, has quite a few pages on "designers working".
Handcrafted Rugs book
This book is one of the best for clear illustrations of technical details that I've seen, and covers lots of techniques including, braided, felt rugs, needlepoint, prodded, hooked, locker-hooked , tufted, knitted and woven rugs: "Handcrafted Rugs" by Sandra Hardy. On Amazon - price from under £3 + postage - published back in 2001.
Base fabrics
Mary Dayton at Rag Art has a really good range of base fabrics for hooking, including hessian, 100% wool even-weave, linen, cotton, polyester and rug canvas: www.ragartstudios.com
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