The Rug Hooker's Bible
Edited by: Gene Shepherd
Using Jane Olson's 30 years of articles from her Rugger's Roundtable as a base, The Rug Hooker's Bible, brought to you by Rug Hooking magazine, is an easy-to-use standard text for beginners and teachers alike. Decades of experience have been edited, expanded, and updated so students can easily study the very best techniques of hooking a rug from beginning to end. See how the same designs can be hooked in four different ways—fine shaded, primitive outline and fill, dip-dyed, and leftover scraps.
The Rug Hooker's Bible includes answers to questions about what equipment to use, backings to choose, dye recipes and shortcuts, tips on hooking vegetable, animal, and mineral, how to improve one's hooking, care and cleaning of rugs, what to do with leftover selvages, and more. This comprehensive reference guide is an indispensable tool for all levels of rug hookers.
Complete with how-to instructions and easy to follow directions on every aspect of producing hand-hooked rugs, The Rug Hooker's Bible includes:
• 30 years of articles from Jane Olson's Rugger's Roundtabie.
• The best techniques of hooking a rug from beginning to end.
• Detailed step-by-step directions and easy-to-follow text.
• How to hook the same design four different ways.
