SOUTH BERWICK -- Experience quintessential New England craft at "Hand-Hooked Rugs: New Works by Members of Seacoast Ruggers," currently on view through Saturday, January 5, 2019, at Sarah Orne Jewett ...

Early 19th Century Americans had a reputation for thriftiness. They not only recycled fibers for quilts but for hooked floor rugs as well. Instead of the pieces of old cotton shirts and dresses used ...

SOUTH BERWICK – Experience quintessential New England craft at "Hand-Hooked Rugs: New Works by Members of Seacoast Ruggers," an exhibit that will be on view beginning Friday, Sept. 14 through Saturday ...

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 ...

Betty Dahlin has a sign hanging by her front door that says "A hooker lives here." A rug hooker, that is. Sometimes, Dahlin and the rest of the Black Hills Rug Hookers are called "strippers" and ...

In 1959, when Beth Anne Smiley was a child, a runner on the stairwell of a family friend made of vintage wool caught her eye. The friend had cut all of the wool by hand out of her husband's good wool ...

If you think you can’t muster any enthusiasm for hooked rugs, an exhibit at the Shelburne Museum this summer could change your mind: “Patty Yoder: Rugs of the Black House Farm.” Yoder, late 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 ...