It has that title, but also an alternative, "Crazy Mosaic," and here a strong kinship between hooking rugs and quilt making is emphasized.

The Ruggery also cleans and repairs hooked rugs.

After retiring from baseball, and even during the offseason during his years in baseball, Johnny Bassler spent much of his time hooking rugs.

Ms. Moshimer, who has been hooking rugs for more than 25 years, also sells beginners' kits with pre-cut fabric strips.

He began carving wood, hooking rugs and repairing clocks to rehabilitate his hands.

She went from quilts to T-shirts to ties to portraits without people, Hawaiian shirts, antique dresses, then hooked rugs.

All through the winter Judy had hooked rugs "like mad."

Burke then taught the women of Chéticamp new techniques for hooking rugs and supplied them with her own designs.

Below, another whole catacomb of shops unfolded-curios and crafts, free instructions in how-to- anything, with large photos showing whole families who smiled as they hooked rugs.

Why ladies hooked woolen rugs on boiling nights never became clear to me.