Hooking wool rugs is an old art which goes back centuries. Their style surprisingly began to increase in the mid nineteenth century in New England, United States and Atlantic Canada, these are actually the places where hooking wool rugs began to appear.
They are also an American old folk art and are sold to this day. Although, a lot of history records say that hooking wool rugs began in Egypt between the third and the seventh century and that’s where hand hooked rugs started.
Hooked wool rugs are seen in a lot of places. A lot of private collectors own several hooked wool rugs. Wool is usually preferred to because they don’t get dirty as easily and they are not absorbent to soil.
