The Rug Hooker's Bible: The Best from 30 Years of Jane Olson's Rugger's Roundtable [With Pattern]

by Jane Olson

Book Overview

Features 30 years of articles from Jane Olson's, "Rugger's Roundtable" Learn the best techniques of hooking a rug from beginning to end Detailed step-by-step directions and easy-to-follow text plus... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881982467
• ISBN13: 9781881982463
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Stackpole Magazines
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

This really is the "Bible" for rug hooking!

This is my favorite rug hooking book, and I believe I own them all. The photographs are beautiful and so helpful, the instructions are clear and the authors go into the kind of detail that is really helpful to beginners like me, and I expect to experienced hookers as well. The two companion DVDs, if you can find them, are amazing and illustrate the beginning chapters beautifully. Learning by watching someone actually do the hooking is even better than reading about it. A lot of books for beginners gloss over some important steps, and you are left wondering how to correctly put the pattern on the frame, or which direction to hold your hook, or how to turn a corner, or how to fill in a little space,etc. I don't mean to imply that the book is at all simplistic, because the later chapters detail quite advanced techniques. I am only saying that it is detailed in a good way, which is very helpful. I expect to use this book for many years to come.

Wonderful reference

This book is a wonderful reference for all aspects of rug hooking. Good images and great text from a master in her field.

Excellent source of info for all levels of rug hooking.

This "Bible" is a wonderful resource for the basics, as well as advanced hooking and dyeing techniques. As a beginner, I was surprised to learn of all the variations in design, composition, and color shading possible. It covers both primitive technique and precision hooking in great detail. This is the one to buy. I'd also bought "Purely Primitive", and it was just that--the very, very basics. I learned alot more from "The Rug Hooker's Bible".

The Rug Hooker's Bible

This is an excellent well rounded book. The information is easy to understand and it is well illustrated with photographs and drawings.

The Rug Hooker's Bible

This is a great, step by step, instructional manual. The directions are easy to understand and the many pictures really show what's supposed to happen. This book has helped me more than the rug hooking classes I've taken.