Handmade Rugs

by Ella Shannon Bowles

Excerpt from Handmade RugsMY interest in handmade rugs began years ago, as I watched my grandmother create hooked and braided rugs for the yellow-painted floors of her weather stained New Hampshire farmhouse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

224 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2013

Reviews

[Deborah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bowles, Ella Shannon. Handmade Rugs. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.,
New York, NY. 1937. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA. 1927.
This wide-ranging book is primarily about traditional rug-hooking,
but it also has chapters on braided, plaited, knit, crochet, patchwork,
button, cross-stitch, woven, and embroidered rug-making. In the chapters
about hooked rugs, there's information on history, designs, colour
schemes, natural dyeing, how to hook, and collecting. If you're interested
in natural dyes, or you're a history buff, this is a great book.