Editor's note: This is the fifth story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...

For years, people have wiped their feet on the family pets and the flowers that grow in their backyard gardens. But those dogs, cats and floral arrangements are jumping from the floor onto the wall.

Everything’s old fashioned in the Log Cabin Museum at the annual Tunbridge World’s Fair. Atop Antique Hill, with Civil War reenactors camped outside, the exhibition hall features weavers, printers and ...

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 ...

An international group of hookers strutting their stuff this afternoon in City Hall prefer nylon stockings or wool to fishnet, but will try just about anything – to make a rug. These crafty hookers ...

From a tiny studio beside her 1880s Graton farmhouse Brigitta Phy paints pictures with fabric, hook by hook by hook, painstakingly keeping alive a fading art that dates back at least to Colonial times ...

Rug hooking fits into the “waste not, want not” mentality. Using recycled wool from clothing and remnants from textile mills, rug hooking was once common in households along the eastern seaboard in ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- These rugs belong on walls, not floors. They resemble fine artwork rather than foot-warmers. ``I call it `painting with wool,''' said Arete Ropa, referring to the art of rug ...

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Originally a pastime for sailors on long-distance voyages in the 1800s, rug hooking was brought into popular culture around the 1940s by Pearl McGown in Massachusetts. Her ...