The Rug Hooker's Bible: The Best from 30 Years of Jane Olsen's Rugger's Roundtable - Softcover

Jane Olson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1881982467 ISBN 13: 9781881982463

Publisher: Stackpole Magazines, 2005

Synopsis

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 beginner and teacher alike. Decades of experience is edited, expanded, and updated so students can easily study the very best techniques of hooking a rug. See how the same designs can be hooked in as many as four different ways - fine shaded, primitive outline and fill, dip dyed, and with artistic scraps. This book is an indispensable tool for all levels of hookers.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Olson, Editor

From the Inside Flap:

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 Roundtable.
- 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stackpole Magazines
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1881982467
• ISBN 13: 9781881982463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Jane Olson