Rug Artist & Colorist

My mother, back in Ohio, taught me how to hook rugs in 1948. She had me begin with the log cabin pattern and built a small frame of lath. She gave me an antique hook that had belonged to her Aunt Em. I returned home to Oregon. After the first success, I decided to learn to hook without a frame and have been doing so ever since. Aunt Em's hook wore out and my husband made a similar one by pounding a large nail into a piece of wood and then filing the hook on one end. I hooked many rugs for my own home and organized the neighbors into a rug club. We made both braided rugs and hooked rugs and taught ourselves. Unfortunately my not using a frame influenced them all. We found our material in the leftover wool scraps from our braided rugs and used yarns as well. We did not get into dyeing. I feel I do not fit into the modern methods of rug hooking but it is too late to change my ways. I have never taught anyone else besides my old neighbors to hook like I do because I know it is unorthodox.

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