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Latch-hooking Rugs (Textiles Handbooks)

Latch-hooking Rugs (Textiles Handbooks)

by Lynda Spiro (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $3.25
Synopsis

Latch-hooking is the latest old-school craft to experience a revival. Popular in the 1970s, latch-hooking is cool, kitsch and shockingly easy to do - think painting with numbers using wool. This book provides simple, illustrated, step-by-step methods and techniques for rugs using straightforward latch-hooking. It will provide inspiration and advice on designing your own rugs and also contain more thank 30 different rug designs which you can follow from concept to finished product. Patterns are included in graph form of the design, and will include a list of materials, quantities and colours.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 10 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 0713685433
ISBN 13: 9780713685435
Book Overview: Includes patterns and designs to follow, as well as information and ideas for creating and making your own designs Methods and projects make use of cheap, easily obtainable materials, and provide straightforward, hand-holding guidance through each making sequence An excellent introductory book for absolute beginners to rug-making, using the simplest technique there is Highly integrated, totally practical, step-by-step instructions will make this an accessible and informative title

Author Bio
Lynda Spiro set up her Cockpit Arts Studio to make original contemporary rugs and wall art in 2004, with the help of a Cockpit Arts Seedbed Award. Her rugs, with their huge variety of colours, textures and designs, have gained rapid popularity. They have been selected and featured by the Bar Council in their inaugural showcase of designer-makers at their new offices in High Holborn, and she has been commissioned to make a rug for wall-hanging in the newly refurbished Penny Farthing Hotel in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire.