DAVENPORT, Ia. – A length of burlap-colored linen is stretched taut across a square wooden frame on a pedestal. In one hand, Beth Anne Smiley holds a thin strip of colorful wool under the linen, and ...

YORK — Join primitive rug hooker Lisanne Miller on Saturday, May 21, at York Art Association for an entire day of "Purely Primitive" rug hooking and learn how to hook a rug made of recycled woolens ...

At first, primitive rug hooking was practiced mainly by the poorer classes, but it grew into an art form prized by all, Smiley explains. People used established patterns as well as those of their own ...