Katie Hartner has added making rug hooking patterns to her Tyler quilting business. She bought A Nimble Thimble here about 13 years ago and recently acquired Woolley Fox from Barbara Carroll, who ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Originally a pastime for sailors on long-distance voyages in the 1800s, rug hooking was brought into popular culture around the 1940s by Pearl McGown in Massachusetts. Her ...

CLINTON — The first exhibit celebrating the bicentennial of the historic Red Mill is in keeping with the Red Mill Museum Village’s themes of history and natural sustainability. “At the Sign of the ...

Everyone's heard of folks who like to knit or crochet. Less known is another group of wooly crafters. They call themselves "hookers." Rug hookers, that is. They take great pride in rug hooking, a ...