TROY, Vt. (AP) - Carolyn Buttolph likes to like to makes things people can use. She hooks rugs, everything from pot holders to large rugs, and leads a class on rug hooking at the Vermont Quilters’ ...

Rug hooking fits into the “waste not, want not” mentality. Using recycled wool from clothing and remnants from textile mills, rug hooking was once common in households along the eastern seaboard in ...

Some people retire to play golf or travel. Fritz Mitnick left her job because she was hooked on another pastime — literally. Mitnick does rug hooking, a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of ...

The centuries-old art of hand-crafted rug hooking is making a comeback, thanks to the hardworking members of the Pearl McGown Hookcrafters, Ocala Chapter 120. “Hooking came from Europe in the form of ...

DAVENPORT, Ia. – A length of burlap-colored linen is stretched taut across a square wooden frame on a pedestal. In one hand, Beth Anne Smiley holds a thin strip of colorful wool under the linen, and ...

In one hand, Beth Anne Smiley holds a thin strip of colorful wool under the linen, and in the other hand she holds a hook on top. With a deft motion, she pokes the hook into the linen, catching the ...