More than 450 designs to inspire you! Taking chances with hooked
rugs–those cozy accessories of hearth and home–is just what members of
Vermont’s Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild do best.

They tackle unconventional subjects, delight in using unheard-of fibers, and love the challenge of designing their own contemporary work. At the same time, they are experts on “traditional” rugs and can replicate hooked pieces from the 1800s with uncanny precision.

The guild’s annual exhibit in 2006 featured more than 900 wonderful rugs, of which half are presented here and half in the companion volume. Feast your eyes on winners of the coveted Viewers’ Choice Awards, rugs in Oriental designs, florals, abstracts, animals, architectural designs, and delicate miniature rugs smaller than a credit card.

Rugs by one of the show’s three honorees, Pat Merikallio, are featured here, as are rugs made by children, rugs illustrating “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” and over 100 pieces depicting the theme “Strong Women.”

A giant high-top sneaker embellished with golden scissors floats in a
polka dot sky along with the surprising motto, “Run With Scissors.”
Hooked rug maker Jill Cooper explains, “The older I get, the more I
don’t follow ‘the rules.’ This rug was a way to share my belief that you
must take every chance you can to enjoy all the beauty of life.”

This book is a delightful, inspiring look at what can be accomplished with the versatile and exciting medium of hooked rugs.[AuthorName]By Amy Oxford and Photographs by Cynthia McAdoo[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Amy Oxford is the founder of the Oxford Rug Hooking School and is a nationally renowned instructor. She’s been teaching the craft since 1986, and her teacher certification program has over the past three decades resulted in over 130 Oxford Certified Instructors in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, the UAE, and Japan. Amy is the inventor, manufacturer, and distributor of the Oxford Punch Needle and is the founder of Red Clover Rugs, a rug hooking shop and mail order business. Amy has been licensed by the Shelburne Museum to make adaptations of their antique rugs, and has helped catalog the museums renowned collection of historic hooked rugs. She is the author of seven books including the original bestseller Punch Needle Rug Hooking; Intermediate & Advanced Punch Needle Rug Hooking; and four volumes of Hooked Rugs Today. amyoxford.com
Cynthia McAdoo has been photographing hooked rugs for over twenty-five
years. She has also designed and hooked rugs for her family business,
McAdoo Rugs, of North Bennington, Vermont.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]635 images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle][/SubTitle][ColorPattern]635 images[/ColorPattern]