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order call 1-800-328-7756
or use our online shopping cart.
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Simple step by step
instructions can be found at the bottom of this page.
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expedited post and the shipping on most parcels is between $10 to $15.
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All Patterns are printed on primitive burlap. All patterns are
also available on linen or Scottish burlap.
If
you do not know how to hook you can easily teach yourself.. I also have a step
by step book, Hook Me Story, (17.95 C) that is a
great tool for teaching yourself this wonderful craft. All of these
kits can be created by a beginning rug hooker. Each
kit contains: Stamped pattern, recycled wool cloth strips, easy to
follow instructions, rug hook
Our Feature Kits
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Three Swimmers $160
This rug is also available as a poster for $10 with poem,
and as notecards with poem written on the back. If you would like either
just ask me to add them to your order in a second email or call
1-800-328-7756.
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These are Fine Beginner Projects or a Wonderful Gift to Get
Someone Started Rug Hooking
Pitched Roof House
,Star Fish or, old Fashioned Posy
11 by 11" $42
Funky Fish 11 by 23" $59
These kits contain Pattern, Wool cloth strips, Rug Hooking Instruction
Booklet, Colour Key, and hook
Order line
1-800-328-7756 or email
info@hookingrugs.com
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Dory Man13"round $50
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Going Shoppin' 10 by14 $50
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Cape Islander13"round $50
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Getting out of the house
12 by 24"
$89.95
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I Only Told My
Sister 12 by 24"
$89.95
These kits
are both shown with our solid pine hand painted frames. We offer custom
frames for rugs. They are available in several colours and various sizes
prices range from $28C ($24US)to $50C (42US) |
Some Traditional Favorite Kits
For Information or to order
kits you can
contact us at 1-800-328-7756.
Our catalog is available by sending
$2.00 to By
The Door RR#5 Amherst NS Canada B4H 3Y3
All kits include a hook, a stamped pattern, easy
to follow instructions, and all the recycled wool cloth strips
you need to complete the kit. You can easily teach yourself if you
do not already know how to hook. It is a simple technique of using a
hook to pull a strip of cloth up through burlap loop by loop. In
primitive hooking you outline and fill in the picture that is already
drawn on your burlap backing (stamped pattern). It is a simple
technique that has been done in North America for over 150 years. The
early settlers made hooked mats out of old clothes and feed bags to
warm their cold damp floors. Rug Hooking is an important part of our
heritage and culture. My book Hook Me A Story (86pg.,full
colour $12.95 US $16.95 C) includes a history, a complete how to
guide, and several chapters on colour texture and design.
RUG
HOOKING INSTRUCTIONS
How
to Hook a Rug
Hooking rugs is a simple task of pulling strips of wool cloth, usually
recycled clothing, washed , dried , and torn apart through a burlap
backing loop by loop. There are no hard and fast rules. The simplest
way to learn is to pick out a kit at www.hookingrugs.com or you can
start from scratch. It was a craft born of necessity as early settlers
tried to warm cold damp floors , they would use the feed bags in the
barn, a hook fashioned out of a nail, and old torn and ragged clothing.
Using four boards clamped together as a frame, women would set up a rug
by the kitchen stove. The old clothing was torn into strips and hooked
loop by loop onto burlap. Often children would tear or cut the rags
into strips. The husband would make the hook, and the frame, and the
woman of the house would hook the rug. Rug hOoking is a rich part of
North American heritage. It is often said to have originated on the
Eastern Seaboard of North America, making it one of the few crafts
indigenous to North America. If that is so, it has clearly been derived
from other types of hooking that existed in many European, and middle
eastern cultures. Todays it remains a faithful past time. Generations
after our ancestors arrived in the new world, rug hooking can still be
carried out with out electricity or technology, in the same authentic
way it was carried out years ago.
You will need:
Rug Hook
Backing of Burlap or
Linen
Wool cloth scraps cut into one quarter
inch strips
A hoop, stretcher bar or rug hooking
frame
1. You first fasten your pattern, which is a piece of burlap with
a picture drawn upon onto a frame such as a heavy duty quilting hoop,
or a stretcher bar.
2. Cut a strip of wool cloth about one quarter an inch wide, and about
eight to twelve inches long.
3. Hold your hook in the hand you use to hold your pencil, and the
strip of wool in the other hand. Put your hook down through a hole in
the burlap backing, and catch the piece of wool, pulling it up thru the
burlap. Bring the first end right up through, then continue the hooking
pulling it up loop by loop.
4. In primitive hooking , you generally start by outlining an area and
then filling it in.
5.Continue hooking until the whole mat is done. Bring all your ends of
wool to the surface and clip them evenly with your loops.
6.When you finish your project, cut the excess burlap away from the
edge, leaving no more than two inches all around. Use this to bind the
rug by folding it and sewing it along the backside of the rug. You can
also use cotton twill tape to bind it along the edge.
7.The final stage is to press you rugs with a wet cloth and hot iron on
both sides to even out the loops and give your rug a finished look
If you have more questions about
rug hooking look at our Frequently Asked Questions Page
