Editor's note: This is the fifth story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...

STANFORDVILLE – "A Collection of Hooked Rugs," presented by the arts nonprofit Creative Crossroads, opened this weekend at the Stanford Grange in Stanfordville. The free exhibition features dozens of ...

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 ...

CORNWALL, Vt. (WCAX) - Amy Oxford is hooked on rug hooking. “We call it instant gratification with wool,” she laughed. She owns The Oxford Company in Cornwall, a one-stop shop for rug hooking. They ...

Last fall, in a church hall in Victoria, 20 women ranging in age from 30 to 60 gathered for a workshop in rug hooking. Midway through the class, organizer Sheila Stewart, owner of the Blue Heron Rug ...

Everything’s old fashioned in the Log Cabin Museum at the annual Tunbridge World’s Fair. Atop Antique Hill, with Civil War reenactors camped outside, the exhibition hall features weavers, printers and ...

KITCHENER — Kate Seely has a lapel pin she loves to wear. It reads: “proud to be a hooker.” This fibre artist has heard all the jokes about one of her favourite crafty pastimes, rug hooking.

NEW GLASGOW – The New Glasgow Library , in collaboration with the Town of New Glasgow ’s 150th anniversary, has initiated a ...

A P.E.I. group wants to get more Islanders hooked on rug hooking and, at the same time, they're hoping to capture the history of their craft through the years. "Rug hooking has had a rejuvenation ...

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 ...