RR5 Amherst Nova Scotia B4H 3Y3
Each kit contains: Stamped pattern, recycled wool cloth strips, easy to follow instructions, rug hook

If you do not know how to hook you can easily teach yourself.. I also have a step by step book, Hook Me Story, (17.95 C)that is a great tool for teaching yourself this wonderful craft. All of these kits can be created by a beginning rug hooker.
 Simple step by step instructions can be found at the bottom of this page.
To order our rug hooking kits and supplies......
You can order with our toll free number 1-800-328-7756. We accept Visa, Mastercard

or you can email me with order and  your phone number and I will call you for your credit card number.

We ship by  expedited post and the shipping on most parcels is between $10 to $15.
email Deanne
info@hookingrugs.com

All Patterns are printed on primitive burlap. All patterns are also available on linen or Scottish burlap.

Our Feature Kits

  Pitched Roof House ,Star Fish  or, old Fashioned Posy 11 by 11" $42C   $37US
Funky Fish 11 by 23" $59 C  $49 US
These kits contain Pattern, Wool cloth strips, Rug Hooking Instruction Booklet, Colour Key, and hook

Order line 1-800-328-7756 or email

info@hookingrugs.com

For Information or to order kits  you can contact us at 1-800-328-7756.

Our catalog is available by sending $2.00 to By The Door RR#5 Amherst NS Canada B4H 3Y3

All kits include a hook, a stamped pattern, easy to follow instructions, and all the  recycled wool cloth strips you need to complete the kit. You can easily teach yourself if you do not already know how to hook. It is a simple technique of using a hook to pull a strip of cloth up through burlap loop by loop. In primitive hooking you outline and fill in the picture that is already drawn on your burlap backing (stamped pattern). It is a simple technique that has been done in North America for over 150 years. The early settlers made hooked mats out of old clothes and feed bags to warm their cold damp floors. Rug Hooking is an important part of our heritage and culture. My book Hook Me A Story (86pg.,full colour $12.95 US $16.95 C) includes a history, a complete how to guide, and several chapters on colour texture and design.

RUG HOOKING INSTRUCTIONS
How to Hook a Rug

Hooking rugs is a simple task of pulling strips of wool cloth, usually recycled clothing, washed , dried , and torn apart through a burlap backing loop by loop. There are no hard and fast rules. The simplest way to learn is to pick out a kit at www.hookingrugs.com or you can start from scratch. It was a craft born of necessity as early settlers tried to warm cold damp floors , they would use the feed bags in the barn, a hook fashioned out of a nail, and old torn and ragged clothing. Using four boards clamped together as a frame, women would set up a rug by the kitchen stove. The old clothing was torn into strips and hooked loop by loop onto burlap. Often children would tear or cut the rags into strips. The husband would make the hook, and the frame, and the woman of the house would hook the rug. Rug hOoking is a rich part of North American heritage. It is often said to have originated on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, making it one of the few crafts indigenous to North America. If that is so, it has clearly been derived from other types of hooking that existed in many European, and middle eastern cultures. Todays it remains a faithful past time. Generations after our ancestors arrived in the new world, rug hooking can still be carried out with out electricity or technology, in the same authentic way it was carried out years ago.

You will need: 
Rug Hook   
 Backing of Burlap or Linen     
Wool cloth scraps cut into one quarter inch strips    
A hoop, stretcher bar or rug hooking frame
1. You first  fasten your pattern, which is a piece of burlap with a picture drawn upon onto a frame such as a heavy duty quilting hoop, or a stretcher bar.
2. Cut a strip of wool cloth about one quarter an inch wide, and about eight to twelve inches long.
3. Hold your hook in the hand you use to hold your pencil, and the strip of wool in the other hand. Put your hook down through a hole in the burlap backing, and catch the piece of wool, pulling it up thru the burlap. Bring the first end right up through, then continue the hooking pulling it up loop by loop.
4. In primitive hooking , you generally start by outlining an area and then filling it in.
5.Continue hooking until the whole mat is done. Bring all your ends of wool to the surface and clip them evenly with your loops.
6.When you finish your project, cut the excess burlap away from the edge, leaving no more than two inches all around. Use this to bind the rug by folding it and sewing it along the backside of the rug. You can also use cotton twill tape to bind it along the edge.
7.The final stage is to press you rugs with a wet cloth and hot iron on both sides to even out the loops and give your rug a finished look

If you have more questions about rug hooking look at our Frequently Asked Questions Page

Step One Secure your pattern onto a hoop or a frame so that it is taught like a drum. This will make the hooking easier. Put your hook in the hand you write with. Put the strip of wool in the other hand and put this hand, holding the wool underneath your pattern.

Step Two Put your hook through a hole in the burlap pulling your end up through the surface. Begin pullining up the wool to the surface loop by loop. All ends should be brought to the surface.

Step Three Continue pulling the loops up in every second or third hole.When you are finished with a strip bring the end to the surface and clip it even with  the other loops. Your loops should be about 1/4 inch in height.

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