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 hookers work on a small frame, using a hook to pull strips of cut wool or other fiber through a loose weave, such as burlap. The Cranberry Rug Hookers Guild on Cape Cod, which is a chapter of ...

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.