Rug Hooking Worms

The rug hook often has a wooden handle to provide a more ergonomic grip to the hooker.

Rug hooking worms.

There s nothing you can do to prevent them no matter how diligent you are they will come. The term is widely used in rug hooking circles and we just assume everyone knows what we are talking about. Sort of like getting colds if you work in the hospital it s an occupational hazard. Handling so much wool it s bound to happen.

I suppose it s an offshoot of rug hooking to be inundated with worms. Worms n hooks wooley things hooked rugs chicken or the egg. Rug hooking is an art a craft it is not about seeking perfection. I will draw the pattern with the chicken facing left however if you want it drawn in the reverse let me know in a note when purchased.

However each project will leave you with left over strips we call worms. As a new rug hooker you have not accumulated a wool stash yet. See more ideas about rug hooking hand hooked rugs hooked rugs primitive. There are aspects of rug hooking that should be done in a certain way to ensure that rugs last or look neat and clean and things that need to be learned the hard way but for the most part consider these comments best practices but not the rule.