Inspired Rug Hooking

The full title is Inspired Rug-Hooking: Turning Atlantic Canadian Life Into Art. 

Working from twenty years' experience as a rug-hooker, studio owner, and teacher, Deanne Fitzpatrick shares her sources of inspiration, work habits, ideas about creativity and design.   She shares helpful guidelines for creating beautiful, expressive rugs.  Practical suggestions for hooking houses, landscapes, seasons, stories, and people are accompanied by the artist's insight into tapping creativity and learning how to make art from life. 

In an inviting, conversational style, Deanne shares stories of visits with other artists, the history of her family's home, and her own development as a rug-hooker.  Throughout she emphasizes the importance of valuing our own experiences and crafting work that honors both life and place.  Passages on artistic inspiration and process are interspersed with tips for choosing colors, experimenting with texture, preparing a backing, transferring a design, and achieving realistic depictions. 

Best of all, over 80 striking color photographs of the author's own projects and techniques provide readers with excellent reference points for turning their own experiences into magnificent rugs. 

144 pp.  Soft cover