Katie Hartner has added making rug hooking patterns to her Tyler quilting business. She bought A Nimble Thimble here about 13 years ago and recently acquired Woolley Fox from Barbara Carroll, who ...

In the months since her nest emptied as her youngest child left home for college this fall, Mary Roberts, president of the Wauwatosa-based public relations firm Buzz Monkeys Inc., has been searching ...

(Pictured above) Linda Nolte, owner of Cottage Sampler, Beth Bellairs, Marge Huftalin and Linda Patterson, instructors at the Carriage House Primitives in St. Ansgar behind the Sampler, display some ...

For Nancy Greene, it’s almost a form of therapy. For Leanne Sitler, it’s an art form, but so much more. Both women are hookers. OK, get your mind out of the gutter. They’re rug hookers, and they’ve ...

In the back of the Woolen Pear and Red Horse Rugs shop in Loudon on Thursday, a group of women sat down for their first rug-hooking class. The class, run by hooking artist and owner Pam Bartlett, was ...

Rug hooking is a traditional textile practice, and of late — thanks in part to many people being home because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it's been enjoying a renaissance in the Newfoundland and ...