Basic Instruction for Hooking Rugs1. Put your sample onto an embroidery body or quilting hoop. It have to lie flat and be tight like a drum. As you hook, hold your burlap tight on your body as this makes the hooking pretty a bit easier.2. Your wool must be easy and prepared to use. You can reduce it into one quarter to one 1/2 inch strips. An easy technique for slicing wool is to take an eight-by-four inch rectangle of wool cloth, fold it accordion-style, and reduce it into strips. This saves a lot of time and works nice with five-and-a-half inch scissors as they have a shorter blade.3. Take a strip of wool and maintain it below your pattern. Take your hook, protecting it in your hand as you would a pencil. Put the hook thru a gap in the burlap, wrap the wool round the hook on the underside of the burlap, and pull the quilt of the wool up via the hole. Continue doing this with the equal strip of wool, pulling it up loop by using loop to the pinnacle facet of your pattern.4. It is a exact thought to begin by means of outlining something close to the centre of your pattern.5. Continue to hook in each 2nd or 0.33 hole, relying on the width and thickness of your wool. When your strip is used up, pull the stop of the strip to the pinnacle facet of your pattern, and clip the give up so that it is an even top with your loops. Your loops need to be one quarter to one 1/3 of an inch in height.6. You can hook in straight or curved lines. Be cautious no longer to go the paths of your wool on the returned of the pattern. Always clip your wool and begin in a new place, as an alternative than carrying a shade throughout the returned of your mat due to the fact this will make your rug bulky, messy and effortless to pull out.7. Continue to hook, with the aid of outlining and filling in all the areas of your rug. Do no longer hook too tightly or your mat will now not lie flat. It is the packing of the loops collectively that maintains the loops from falling out, however if you pack it too tightly your rug will curl up.8. There are many approaches of ending the edges of a rug. You can sew by way of hand black cotton twill tape round the backyard edges of the rug. Hook proper up to the twill tape, or sew it on after the rug is hooked. When your rug is complete, you can roll two inches of the extra burlap into the twill tape and hand sew it alongside the bottom of your rug. If the rug is going on the wall, you can fold the extra burlap alongside the returned aspect of the rug, and sew it up. I like to press the rug with a warm iron and a moist cloth. This is referred to as blocking off the rug and it helps provide the rug a completed patina and even out the loops.9. When you hook, attempt no longer to go from left to proper however cowl many components of the rugs location in case you have to run brief of wool. If you do this you can constantly add extra wool of a barely distinct shade to entire your rug. It can also even beautify the primitive great of your design.