Creative Hooker

From both coasts of the United States and Canada, plus many areas in between, Jessie Turbayne has collected over 525 images of the best that rug hooking artists have to offer. Included are designs of Americana and Canadiana, advertising art, angels, and abstract motifs. See rugs motivated by exotic cultures, Korean cranes, and ancient Persian textiles. Visit Niagara Falls, tour Soho, and catch a hooked rug exhibition at Indiana's Carnegie Center. Inspiring words from noted hooking artists indicate that rug hooking has gone uptown. Providing interest to textile collectors and artists, interior decorators, art and antique dealers, and rug hooking artists alike. <<AUTHOR: From both coasts of the United States and Canada, plus many areas in between, Jessie Turbayne has collected over 525 images of the best that rug hooking artists have to offer. Included are designs of Americana and Canadiana, advertising art, angels, and abstract motifs. See rugs motivated by exotic cultures, Korean cranes, and ancient Persian textiles. Visit Niagara Falls, tour Soho, and catch a hooked rug exhibition at Indiana's Carnegie Center. Inspiring words from noted hooking artists indicate that rug hooking has gone uptown. Providing interest to extile collectors and artists, interior decorators, art and antique dealers, and rug hooking artists alike. Jessie Turbayne is an inernationally recognised authority on hooked rugs and the author of seven books that are highly regarded by both collectors and contemporary hooking artists. The lifelong resident of Massachusetts teaches rug hooking and has specialised in the conservation and restoration of hooked rugs for over thirty years. <<543 colour photographs