Others went home and returned the next day. A massage therapist was on hand to provide relief to those spending long hours bent over rug hooking frames. Visit the Guild’s website at hcrag.com ...

Rug hooking is business ... the holes in a burlap or linen base that's stretched tight across a wooden frame. Hillier can hook 80 loops per minute, an astonishing speed, shaping images of her ...

A length of burlap-colored linen is stretched taut across a square wooden frame on a pedestal ... Smiley is doing primitive rug hooking, a craft brought to the eastern United States in the ...

KITCHENER — Kate Seely has a lapel pin she loves to wear. It reads: “proud to be a hooker.” This fibre artist has heard all the jokes about one of her favourite crafty pastimes, rug hooking.