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Article: Sheepish About Hooked Rugs? Not After This Exhibit
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- July 15, 2009
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Sheepish About Hooked Rugs? Not After This Exhibit
If you think you can't muster any enthusiasm for hooked rugs, an exhibit at the Shelburne Museum this summer could change your mind: "Patty Yoder: Rugs of the Black House Farm."
Yoder, late of Tinmouth, Vt., worked as a teacher and designer for several decades and was nearly 50 by the time she found her ultimate artistic medium, the hooked rug. But from the beginning, she applied rigorous aesthetic standards to the process of creating patterns, dyeing wool and hooking. She treated each rug like a painting, sketching the landscapes and portraits of family, friends and her beloved sheep from photographs, then enlarging the sketches and ...