Editor's note: This is the fifth story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...

The Hook ‘n I rug hooking group will showcase a range of traditional and contemporary hooked rug designs, as well as an array ...

SEATTLE — Fiber Artist Andie Solar demonstrates the art of punch needle, an embroidery method in which an artist can create rugs, wall hanging, or cushion covers by threading loops of acrylic or wool ...

SELINSGROVE -- After a long day at the office, Ruth Roush would come home and hook rugs. What began as a hobby evolved into a long-time avocation. "You could say I was a hooker for 50 years," she said ...

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,” ...

Janice Lee didn’t want to attend the class. Her friend, Sandy Weller, wanted to learn about the art of rug hooking and invited her to come along. Lee wasn’t interested in this art form, but three ...

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 ...

From a tiny studio beside her 1880s Graton farmhouse Brigitta Phy paints pictures with fabric, hook by hook by hook, painstakingly keeping alive a fading art that dates back at least to Colonial times ...