Comments on: Does this FPP make you want to be a hooker?

Does this FPP make you want to be a hooker?

orange swan — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:25:10 -0800

Ultimate Recycling Rug hooking must be one of the simplest and cost-effective of crafts (basically, cut old clothes into strips, use burlap, insert hook, pull up loop of fabric), and so it's all the more amazing that it can be used to achieve such cool, painterly and stunning results. If you click on just one link in this FPP, make it this one, made by a Japanese woman out of her grandmother's old silk kimonos. I've selected just one excellent, comprehensive rug hooking web site, but there's a lot of resources and information available on the web for this craft if you're interested.

By: headspace

headspace — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:36:55 -0800

This is really neat! Thank you for sharing!

By: ThePrawn

ThePrawn — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:37:27 -0800

You could frame most of the samples you linked to, The Bamboo was, indeed, pretty amazing. And all for the price of a little "hook".

By: MonkeyToes

MonkeyToes — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:10:03 -0800

And I thought that I was the only hooker around here! The Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild hosts an annual exhibition of its members' work at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. It's a great hobby -- practical, artistic, and good for the environment, especially if you use thrift store-bought wools. (Um, if anybody's getting rid of woolen skirts during spring cleaning, drop me a line.) Plus, it's just so much fun to tell my friends that I've taken up hooking in the evenings...

By: Melinika

Melinika — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:11:49 -0800

So cool! That bamboo one is beautiful - I can't imagine the amount of work it took.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:26:41 -0800

Insert mandatory joke about hookers and strippers here. I don't hook myself, but I've seen some extraordinary work at the Creative Sewing and Needlework Festival over the years.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:59:24 -0800

Nice post, orange swan - thanks! The Canadian Museum of Civilization has an interesting collection of folk rugs online, along with more information on how-tos.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:13:21 -0800

I'm familiar with the concept of rug hooking, but I had no idea it could be so beautiful. Previously, I'd only ever seen this folk art as kits in craft stores. But apparently that's like understanding painting by looking at paint-by-numbers kits. I learned something new today. Thanks, orange swan.

By: taz

taz — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:11:50 -0800

Great post, orange swan! Here's another fabulous gallery of hooked rugs ("Wild flowers crowd my mind" blows me away), via Cynthia at art for housewives, a great blog for recycling crafters.

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:30:49 -0800

Wow, these are impressive. Love the bamboo especially. This one of stone work and this still life are pretty nifty too.

By: aedra

aedra — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:52:41 -0800

I have hooked some smaller pieces and am most familiar with the hooked rugs from Cheticamp, NS. Here's another hooked rug resource.

By: aedra

aedra — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:54:54 -0800

Insert mandatory joke about hookers and strippers here. The rug hookers in Cheticamp are fondly known as: "The Happy Hookers".

By: orange swan

orange swan — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:08:56 -0800

Thanks to those of you who enriched this thread with your supplementary links!