Hooked Rugs
It is essential for a human being to decorate and warm their dwelling, especially if this human being is a woman. Hooked rugs go back generations to those times when all the things for decoration were desperately unavailable or extremely expensive.
Hooked rugs were especially popular in the New World where the decorating industry was not yet developed and there were already so many fine Indian hooked rugs around to look up to.
Creative hosewives, who were sick and tired of plain wood walls to stare at started making hooked rugs from old clothing and cleaned potato bags. They often had great Indian hooked rugs as examples.
Those Indian rugs were also made by women who needed to warm and decorate their dwellings, so making hooked rugs is a pretty much universal activity.
Hooked rugs can be easily made of stripes of cut-up old clothing (desirably wool), a canvas (sometimes in the form of clean potato and flour bags) and the hook.
There’s also a pattern to be selected for your hooked rugs to stay unique.
You can make hooked rugs yourself to decorate the house at low cost. Store-purchased hooked rugs are expensive because of the amount of labour needed. But making hooked rugs for yourself is a special pleasure, isn’t it?
Try just once and you’ll get hooked on hooked rugs!