Hooked rugs have nearly as long a history in the United States as the country itself. The heydey of hooked rugs was during the mid-19th Century in New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, ...

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 ...

They can be fine art or as practical as a potholder. While the origins of hooked rugs date to the Vikings, modern rug hooking really was born here in New England. With Hook in Hand, which opened in ...

For Karl and Mary Jo Gimber, it started when they bought a hooked mat at a Bucks County estate auction. “It turns out that the woman who hooked it was there and she came over and introduced herself,” ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - For Stephanie Krauss, rug hooking seems to be in the family genes. “I guess it started originally with my great-grandmother, she was a rug hooker and had a shop in Lowell, ...

Last fall, in a church hall in Victoria, 20 women ranging in age from 30 to 60 gathered for a workshop in rug hooking. Midway through the class, organizer Sheila Stewart, owner of the Blue Heron Rug ...

Nobody wants to feel like trash. Nobody wants to feel walked on. Even so, Mary Barile makes a compelling case for the hooked rug in her latest book, "Hooked Rugs of the Midwest: A Handcrafted History" ...

Mary Bajcz, who came to the Detroit News Stitch-Together in May, has an amazing talent for turning scraps of wool fabric, leftover yarn and discarded wool garments into beautifully handcrafted rag ...

The once-humble American hooked rug hangs on museum walls these days and brings prices in the thousands of dollars–part of the trend toward American country art. A decade ago most hooked rugs sold for ...

Patty Yoder, H is for Hannah & Sarah, A Civil Union, 2000. Credit: Courtesy of Shelburne Museum In the world of rug hooking, Patty Yoder is legendary. The medium, which consists of looping lengths of ...

Hannah Epstein’s riotous exhibition at Steve Turner may bring back memories of hours spent with latch hook rug kits — those ready-to-assemble crafts that, strand by strand, formed a fuzzy image of a ...

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 ...