10 Facts About Rug hooking

Rug hooking is both an art and a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp.

In contrast latch-Rug hooking uses a hinged hook to form a knotted pile from short, pre-cut pieces of yarn.

Since hooking was a craft of poverty, rug makers put to use whatever materials were available.

In 1939, Ernst Thomsen of Hjørring invented a handheld tool which sped up the Rug hooking process making it possible to create large carpets in a reasonable length of time.

Rug hooking today has evolved into two genres, which primarily fall into groups based upon the width of the wool strip employed to create a rug: fine hooking and primitive hooking.

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The wide-cut Rug hooking accomplishes shading and highlights using textures in wool, such as plaids, checks, herringbones, etc.

Today's great Modern Folk Rug hooking Hookers include; Norma Batastini, NJ; Cheryl Bollenbach, CO; Maggie Bonanomi, MO; Barbara Carroll, PA; Gail Dufresne, NJ;Carla Fortney, CA; Sally Van Nuys OH; Jayne Hester, NY; Cynthia Norwood, TX; Deanne Fitzpatrick, NS; Cindi Gay, Pemberville, OH; etc.

Rug hooking's introduced traditional rug-hooking into her surrealist, feminist art practice, using the medium to explore ideas of feminist utopia, and the gendering of space.

Rug hooking's became one of many female artists at the time to use what had been considered "feminine arts" to explore and deconstruct the male dominated hierarchy of fine art.

Latch Rug hooking was one of the activities available to convalescing soldiers, hospital patients and care home residents.