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How to set up a dye kitchen, dump & go dyeing, single and double dips, spot dyes, casserole dyes, dry dyeing, marbelizing wool with more than 70 dye recipes.

119 pages

By Ellen Banker

Hooked on Words offers inspiration with many images of hooked rugs, all with words—from primitive to fine–cut examples. You'll read about the design and development of several rugs from conception to completion. Hooked on Words includes background information about type and designing with type. It also contains techniques for you to incorporate lettering into your own hooking with methods that are plain and simple to precise and complex. You'll read about special rugs that are samplers, games, signs, and some rugs that even have secrets.

Filled with examples that will interest both beginners and experienced rug hookers, we hope you will enjoy reading this book and be inspired to hook rugs with words!

About the Author

Ellen Banker is a rug hooker and graphic designer. She has been an on–and–off rug hooker since 1999 and generally designs her own patterns with one consistent element: words. For 25 years, she has worked in commercial printing and graphic design. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ellen brings an artist's eye to her work and art. Ellen has taught her word hooking techniques at guild meetings and at the Green Mountain Rug School in Vermont, and is a contributing writer for Rug Hooking Magazine

$25.95

In Story Rugs and their Storytellers, author Paulette Hackman focuses on a visual style of storytelling, as old as cave art, that is gaining popularity among contemporary rug hookers. The fiber artist who hooks in this narrative style, she writes, is the one "puts words to wool, sentences to lines, a page of creative musing to a yard of blank linen." the rugs tell of celebrations, travels, and adventures and illustrate personal journeys, strongly held beliefs, poignant memories, and milestones of family heritage.

80 colorful story rugs in a diversity of styles and subjects

Techniques to help launch your own project of storytelling-by-hook

108 pages

Presented by Rug Hooking Magazine and published by Ampry Publishing

The Best From 30 Years of Jane Olson's Rugger's Roundtable Learn the best techniques of hooking a rug from beginning to end. Detailed step-by-step directions and easy-to-follow text plus how to hook the same design four different ways.

By author: Jane Olson Edited by: Gene Shepherd

Paperback, 186 pages

This book will introduce you to a whole new world of fancy fibers to use in your hooked rugs! Well known designer and teacher Gail Dufresne shows you how to use yarns and ribbons, buttons and beads, silk, and other alternative fibers in your hooked pieces. lavishly illustrated with her own rugs and the works of other artists, this book will inspire you to look beyond your wool stash. Add a little glitz and surprise to your next masterpiece!

124 pages in paperbacl

Presented by Rug Hooking Magazine and published by Ampry Publishing

A great book on how to use up odds and ends in your stash. Colorful and contemporary guides rug hookers toward color planning and clever designs. Includes 5 scrappy patterns.

Written by Bea Brock

122 pages in paperback.

Published by Rug Hooking Magazine

Come with us into the colorful world of Celtic rug hooking, a world full of amazing designs. Celtic rug expert Gail Lambert leads us through the process of color planning and hooking these appealing designs, with tips and suggestions on deciphering and untangling a pattern, outlining the complex details, and finishing your hooked piece. As a special treat, Gail included seven Celtic recipes for the busy rug hooker. - Color planning and hooking Celtic rugs - Illuminated Letters, fanciful birds and creatures - Simple and complicated Celtic knots - Gallery of 20 Celtic rugs - 12 intriguing designs by master designer David Rankine

Eyes Open to the World Memories of Travel in Wool Join Karen Miller as she tells how her love of art and travel laid the path for her own career as a fiber artist. Featuring the works and advice from over thirty contributors and Karen's own journeys to the islands of the North Atlantic, Eyes Open to the World is a must–have resource of shared experiences for new and established fiber artists alike. Karen encourages you at every step to see the artist in yourself and to set that artist free to tell your own stories.

Are you interested in hooking from photos of your own travels? Travel with Karen and the talented rug hookers you will find in the book to discover the possibilities. You will be amazed at what these artists have accomplished and you will be inspired to begin your own travel piece.

Karen Miller first took up a hook in 2008 and has been creating original designs in her studio in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ever since. Originally drawn to the rugged palette of the east coast of Canada and the islands of the North Atlantic, she now follows her inspirations into whatever unlikely places they may take her, from the rigours of motherhood and the world that her children are growing into to the colours that you find under your feet on a walk through the woods. She is a teacher and frequent contributor to Rug Hooking magazine, where she encourages everyone to pick up a hook, a pen, a brush, and let their imagination run. She has shown her work in group and solo shows across Canada and the United States and she is a passionate believer that hooking and fiber art are every bit as much an art form as any other medium.