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Rug and Hooking Supplies
Past & Present Rug Shop is a fast growing traditional rug hooking supply business in North Rustico, Prince Edward Island. We offer a complete stock of rug hooking supplies including books, patterns, wool, yarn, printed patterns, bent scissors, hooks, hoops, frames, wool cloth cutters, thrummed knitting supplies and much more. Site features rug and mat hooking as a handcraft that originated more than a century ago. Today there is a growing interest in the use of many different materials to create original designs. Soon you will have your own collection of beautiful hooked mats and rugs that will eventually become your family heirlooms. Includes a gallery of rug patterns including landscapes, animals and other designs. Supplies include custom dyed wool, cutting machines, rug frames and hoops as well as rug hooks and prodders.

Rug Braiding Instructions
This article has rug braiding information. Using the three-strand braid, strips are sewn together. Oval rugs or rectangular rugs can be made reversible. Stitch rug binding tape is used as well. Lacing brings the braid strands together, thus creating the rug.

Rug Hooking Resources
Traditional hooking uses a hand hook, similar in shape to a crochet hook, to form a looped pile from fabric strips or yarn on an even-weave base (such as burlap, monks-cloth, divider cloth, or linen). This technique isn't only used to create rugs, of course; you can also make chair seats, wall hangings, trivets, Christmas tree ornaments, carpetbags, clothing, and jewelry, among many other things. I've designated it as "traditional" to keep confusion at bay, since the use of latch-hooks, punch-needles, or speed hooks is also commonly called "rug hooking". Punch-needle hooking and speed hooking also form rug piles from the running loop stitch, and are sometimes mentioned in the same reference books and supplied by the same companies as traditional hand hooking - so, if you are interested in these newer techniques, you may also find a starting point in this document. Rug hooking resources website contains tips on rug cleaning, care and restoration, as well as rug hooking descriptions. Design tools, bulletin boards, newsgroups and other rug hooking websites are provided.

The Rug Hookers' Group on Yahoo.com
Here's where you can join the Rug Hookers e-group at Yahoo.com. If you've ever been a part of an e-group before you're undoubtedly in for a pleasant surprise. This is a large group of people, all of whom are interesting in hooked rugs, and all of them ready, willing, and anxious to share their expertise, their knowledge, their skill, their hints, and their tips to help you with any hooked rug project you have or are thinking of starting. Groups such as this are very close-knit and willing to lend help and advice as if you are a member of a family. If you are interested in joining an on-going discussion on a wide range of hooked rug topice with over 1,600 other rug hooking enthusiasts, then follow the simple instructions for gaining membership.