Flooring

Top rug maker “hooks” first prize in show

An American lady who’s been hooking home-made rugs since childhood won first place at a state wide craft fair after entering a stunning five and a half foot arabesque octagonal hooked rug for the show.

Sounds like due credit when you learn that the rug is the product of having worked for at least an hour a day over the past year to produce it. This labour of love isn’t stand-alone however, as rug hooker Nancy Crisman explains she has completed over 50 hooked rugs in the last 25 years.

Having learnt to hook rugs as a child and growing up in an old three-storey stone house where floors were cold, Crisman’s rug making was as functional an activity as it was an enjoyable hobby she has kept up into adulthood.

The rugs she tends to make are largely reproductions of many that her great-aunt made. She does this to retain the pieces as family heirlooms as the materials and backing that were used in the originals aren’t as durable as those used today and have deteriorated over the years.

A lovely way to ensure family traditions are passed on, but if you haven’t got the skills of time to create your own but still want to warm up those floors, this large Chinese rug made of modern fibres for increased hygiene would do just the job for toasting your tootsies on.

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