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Article: Hooked on Rugs

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October 1, 2003
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In June of 1999, Mary Silva took a fateful trip to Maine with her husband. Mary recounts the story with a can-you-believe-it tone usually saved for cosmic miracles and Ann Taylor clearance rack items.

"I went antique hook rug shopping with a woman I had just met on the trip. When I told her how I had always loved rug hooking and wanted to learn the craft, she said her daughter was a great teacher but she lived in a small town in Southern Indiana -- Floyds Knobs. I almost fell out of my chair. It was the same town I had lived in my whole life!"

The woman's daughter was Jyl Clark and Mary called her as soon as she returned home to schedule her first rug hooking lesson. Soon after Mary and Jyl ...

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