Locker hook is a hand craft that turns scraps of fabric and twine in to coasters rugs bracelets bags or art pieces.
How to make a locker hook rug.
This keeps the underside of the rug nice and smooth if the rug is to be used on a wood or tile floor add rug backing for safety.
3 75 mesh rug canvas 60 wide aluminum locker hook 5 6 skeins of 185 yard 6oz.
My girlfriend s mom who is very crafty and from the surrounding madison area is going to show you how to do the old fashion locker hooking.
A locker hook looks like a hybrid of a crochet hook and a darning needle with the hook on one end and a large eye on the other.
Many instructions online use the locker hook needle to tuck the tails in but i think it is too thick and may pull your loops askew.
The sky is the limit when it comes to your design you can follow an ornate pattern do a simple geometric pattern or just randomly use up scraps.
Acrylic yarn i sued the softest i could find tapestry needle scissors it took me 5 days lots of movie watching to make this 57 x21 rug for my guest room.
It s an easy skill to pick up and you can finish a small piece in an evening.
I recommend using the tapestry needle.
In the early days women sometimes substituted strips of cotton fabric for the more costly strands of wool for locker hooked rugs which were quite similar in appearance to.
Yarn is threaded through the eye and the hook is used to pull strips of fabric through the.