Hook Me a Story

by Fitzpatrick, Deanne

• ISBN13: 9781551092799
• ISBN10: 1551092794
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Summary

A much needed source book for anyone wanting to know the history and the craft of rug hooking. Includes illustrations of techniques and materials and methods. This book is a tribute to those who kept the craft alive over the years.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Introduction	x
An Historical Perspective	2	(8)
Early Settlers Covering Cold Floors	2	(8)
Mat Making in Atlantic Canada	10	(14)
Newfoundland and Labrador	10	(3)
The Grenfell mats	11	(2)
Rug Hooking in Nova Scotia	13	(7)
The Garretts of New Glasgow	13	(3)
The Cheticamp rugs, and Elizabeth Lefort	16	(2)
Doris Eaton and the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia	18	(2)
New Brunswick	20	(2)
Prince Edward Island	22	(2)
Hooking Rugs: A Simple Past-Time	24	(20)
Basic Instructions	24	(3)
Rug Hooking Instructions	27	(13)
Hooks	29	(2)
Backings	31	(2)
Frames	33	(1)
Cutters	34	(1)
Gathering the cloth	35	(1)
Wool cloth	35	(5)
Hooking with Yarn and Other Fabrics	40	(2)
Yarn	40	(1)
Nylons	41	(1)
Cottons, t-shirts and other fabrics	42	(1)
Caring for Hooked Rugs	42	(2)
Types of Design	44	(14)
Geometric designs	44	(1)
Florals	45	(2)
Abstract	47	(1)
Animals	48	(3)
Pictorials	51	(2)
Borders	53	(1)
Shapes	54	(2)
Other Ideas for Hooking Rugs	56	(2)
Colour and Texture in Primitive Rug Making	58	(12)
Colour	58	(10)
Suggestions for using colour	62	(2)
Dying wools for primitive hooking	64	(2)
Tips for dying	66	(1)
Using the washing machine to dye wool	66	(1)
Simmering, bleaching and other methods of dying	66	(1)
Overdying chart	67	(1)
Texture	68	(2)
The Art of Rug Hooking	70	(12)
Designing Rugs	70	(12)
Adaptations: your early designs	73	(1)
Templates: An old fashioned way to design	74	(1)
Expressing yourself in your designs	74	(2)
Elements of design	76	(6)
Beginner Projects	82	(4)
Old Fashioned Roses	82	(2)
Template Project	84	(2)
Bibliography	86