Katie Hartner has added making rug hooking patterns to her Tyler quilting business. She bought A Nimble Thimble here about 13 years ago and recently acquired Woolley Fox from Barbara Carroll, who ...

Everything’s old fashioned in the Log Cabin Museum at the annual Tunbridge World’s Fair. Atop Antique Hill, with Civil War reenactors camped outside, the exhibition hall features weavers, printers and ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Originally a pastime for sailors on long-distance voyages in the 1800s, rug hooking was brought into popular culture around the 1940s by Pearl McGown in Massachusetts. Her ...

The long, cold days of a Minnesota winter can be the perfect time to learn a new hobby. The Rochester Area Rug Hookers would like to introduce you to the craft of rug hooking. Kathy Morton, right, and ...

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 ...

WAUPACA – The Heart of Wisconsin Rug Hooking Guild will hold its 27th annual Hook-In from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Spencer Lake Christian Center in Waupaca. This is a day rug hookers from all ...

WAUTOMA – The Heart of Wisconsin Rug Hooking Guild will sponsor its 25th annual Fall Hook-In from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 25 at Mount Morris Camp and Conference Center, W6016 Blackhawk Road, Wautoma.

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 ...

Rug hooking is a traditional textile practice, and of late — thanks in part to many people being home because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it's been enjoying a renaissance in the Newfoundland and ...

In the months since her nest emptied as her youngest child left home for college this fall, Mary Roberts, president of the Wauwatosa-based public relations firm Buzz Monkeys Inc., has been searching ...