How To Make A Locker Hook Rug
My girlfriend s mom who is very crafty and from the surrounding madison area is going to show you how to do the old fashion locker hooking.
How to make a locker hook rug. This keeps the underside of the rug nice and smooth if the rug is to be used on a wood or tile floor add rug backing for safety. Locker hook is a hand craft that turns scraps of fabric and twine in to coasters rugs bracelets bags or art pieces. In the early days women sometimes substituted strips of cotton fabric for the more costly strands of wool for locker hooked rugs which were quite similar in appearance to. 3 75 mesh rug canvas 60 wide aluminum locker hook 5 6 skeins of 185 yard 6oz.
In the 1940s americans enjoyed locker hooking too but due to the high cost of the specialty yarn the craft of locker hooking never seemed to become a widely embraced hobby. Locker hooking uses a rug hooking canvas similar to that used for latch hooking but the tool and technique are different. Acrylic yarn i sued the softest i could find tapestry needle scissors it took me 5 days lots of movie watching to make this 57 x21 rug for my guest room. Yarn is threaded through the eye and the hook is used to pull strips of fabric through the.
A locker hook looks like a hybrid of a crochet hook and a darning needle with the hook on one end and a large eye on the other. A simple easy way to handmake a very soft rug using the locker hook technique. It s an easy skill to pick up and you can finish a small piece in an evening.