We inherited this from some relative or other in the South Bend Indiana area...who knows whose it was to start with...you hook a rug with it by moving the two sides back and forth and it pokes the yarn thru the burlap...same size loop ...no fuss no muss...but no idea what this thing is called...and we used a frame with it the one time that I used it...
Anyone know what it is called?
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I sent a link to a colleague who is an extraordinary rug hooker because I knew she'd know. Here's what she had to say:
That is a rug punch. You thread yarn through the hole in the needle and punch by making loops by manipulating the needle up and down and moving the tip of the punch. The pattern has to be extremely taunt on the frame and you have to keep the punch in contact with the backing or you'll end up with a two sided loopy rug that unravels real easy. Done correctly it's damn near impossible to unravel. Lot's of people think you maked hooked rugs with a rug punch, but it looks completely different.
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