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Carpet Types
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Rugs Hooking |
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Rugs hooking is the ancient art of making floorcovering. There are a lot of disputes of where and when rugs hooking started. Some state that it was ancient Egyptians who first started to hook rugs; others consider the origin of hooked rugs to be in China or Europe. But it’s sure thing that the popularity of rugs hooking started in the New England states and some provinces of Canada. Being originally a craft of American women, later on it turned into a popular hobby. Nowadays hooked rugs can be found in museums and art galleries all over US. The tools of rugs hooking are hand hook which resembles crocket hook. Punch-needles and speed hooks are also connected with the notion of rugs hooking. Rugs hooking have to be differentiated from latch-hooking which use quite different hand hook. Hooking rugs is pulling strips of wool cloth loop by loop. The rules are ont hard and one cam easily learn hoe to do it. Simplicity combined with tradition in the work of rug hookers makes hooked rugs irresistible. The materials used for rugs hooking are wool cloth or regular yarn. Natural wool of the sheep, llama, or goats are good materials for hooking. You can give a new life to old sweaters, woolen underwear, coats, and blankets. The elements on the rugs are hooked differently to give some effect to them. For example, natural sheep wool makes great clouds or fluffy waves. But an important thing about rugs hooking is that one should constantly practice with wools and experiment with texture. The forgiving nature of hooking is that you can always pull it out if it does not suit. rug |
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