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9781881982463
Utilizing Jane Olson's 30 years of articles from her Rugger's Roundtable as a base, The Rug Hooker's Bible is an easy-to-use standard text for beginner and teacher alike. Decades of experience is edited, expanded, and updated so students can easily study the very best techniques of hooking a rug from beginning to end. See how the same designs can be hooked in as many as four different ways--fine shaded, primitive outline and fill, dip dyed, and with artistic scraps. The Rug Hooker's Bible answers questions about equipment; backings; dye recipes and shortcuts; hooking vegetable, animal, and mineral; how to improve one's hooking; care and cleaning of rugs; what to do with leftover selvages; and more. This comprehensive reference guide is an indispensable tool for all levels of hookers.Shepherd, Gene is the author of 'Rug Hooker's Bible The Best From 30 Years Of Jane Olson's Rugger's Roundtable', published 2006 under ISBN 9781881982463 and ISBN 1881982467.
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