For Nancy Greene, it’s almost a form of therapy. For Leanne Sitler, it’s an art form, but so much more. Both women are hookers. OK, get your mind out of the gutter. They’re rug hookers, and they’ve ...
STANFORDVILLE – "A Collection of Hooked Rugs," presented by the arts nonprofit Creative Crossroads, opened this weekend at the Stanford Grange in Stanfordville. The free exhibition features dozens of ...
Everything’s old fashioned in the Log Cabin Museum at the annual Tunbridge World’s Fair. Atop Antique Hill, with Civil War reenactors camped outside, the exhibition hall features weavers, printers and ...
From a tiny studio beside her 1880s Graton farmhouse Brigitta Phy paints pictures with fabric, hook by hook by hook, painstakingly keeping alive a fading art that dates back at least to Colonial times ...
Editor's note: This is the fifth story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...
Last fall, in a church hall in Victoria, 20 women ranging in age from 30 to 60 gathered for a workshop in rug hooking. Midway through the class, organizer Sheila Stewart, owner of the Blue Heron Rug ...
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.
Rug hooking is a traditional textile practice, and of late — thanks in part to many people being home because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it's been enjoying a renaissance in the Newfoundland and ...