Hooking

    

                                                                                                                This lady kindly let me sketch her while she hooked a snowman.

My mother hooks rugs and belongs to a group who do the same.  This week in our town, Powassan in Northern Ontario, there was a "hook-in" where the Powassan group and other hooking groups in surrounding areas came together to show their work, hook their rugs, talk and generally learn from each other.  

To hook a rug narrow pieces of wool fabric are placed into the coarse weave of French linen with a hook to create any manner of image.  They are paintings in fibre and are really works of art.

Here are a few rugs from the hook-in.

    

  

                                   These two rugs were hooked by Lyn Goegan

            Above is a hooking by my mother, Margaret Butler.

                This hooking is by Mary Lyn Poulin.

This is a partially finished hooking by Bonnie O'Halloran and is based on a photo of her grand daughter.

               This is a hooking being worked on by Katherine Kirton.