How To Make A Locker Hook Rug

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.

How to make a locker hook rug.

I recommend using the tapestry needle. 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. 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. 3 75 mesh rug canvas 60 wide aluminum locker hook 5 6 skeins of 185 yard 6oz.

A simple easy way to handmake a very soft rug using the locker hook technique. 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. Locker hooking uses a rug hooking canvas similar to that used for latch hooking but the tool and technique are different. 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.

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. 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. Locker hook is a hand craft that turns scraps of fabric and twine in to coasters rugs bracelets bags or art pieces.