How To Hook Rugs With Wool Fabric

Once you learn the foundation of skills involved in pulling up loops of fabric or wool you can make virtually any design you desire.

How to hook rugs with wool fabric.

Felted and ready to use. You can sew by hand black cotton twill tape around the outside edges of the rug. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to being together with you all again very soon virtually for now hopefully in person in the near future. Rug hooking has not changed much over the centuries and with the simplicity of skill needed to create exquisite designs why should it.

In the 1920s british craftswomen used heavy six ply wool yarn to create durable rugs with a locker hooking process. Kermit is great for leaves stems turkey feathers grassy knolls and hills. Then scout out some nice scraps of wool fabric you ll need half a pound for each square foot of your rug. In the 1940s americans enjoyed locker hooking too but due to the high cost of the specialty yarn the craft of locker hooking never seemed to become a widely embraced hobby.

Hook right up to the twill tape or sew it on after the rug is hooked. To get started buy a hand hook it ll cost around 1 25 from a crafts supply store. When your rug is complete you can roll two inches of the excess burlap into the twill tape and hand sew it along the backside of your rug. Rug hooking with wool yarn in light of the continuing covid 19 pandemic fabric of life has made the difficult decision to cancel all in person events for the remainder of 2020.

We are so thankful kermit is available again.