Margaret Harrison wants to revive the popularity of the traditional craft of rug hooking. She remembers a time when people would make them at home to sell for extra cash.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- When friends and neighbors heard the Brady family needed crafting materials for a special project, two-handled white plastic bags with Food Lion, Wal-Mart and Harris Teeter logos ...
No one is sure who made the first hooked rugs, but most historians think it was the Vikings. We do know that in the early 19th century, floormats were made in the United States from 9-inch-long pieces ...
From a tiny studio beside her 1880s Graton farmhouse Brigitta Phy paints pictures with fabric, hook by hook by hook, painstakingly keeping alive a fading art that dates back at least to Colonial times ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Savaree Hazard-Chaney is making history in the capital city. The Providence artist opened TuftxPVD, Rhode Island’s first Black-owned rug tufting studio, a few years ago.