1.   Do not dry clean or immerse a hooked rug in water, which can damage the burlap backing.

2.   Hooked rugs have nearly as long a history in the United States as the country itself.

3.   Hooked rugs have recently surpassed American quilts in popularity in sales at galleries and fairs.

4.   Hooked rugs originally covered beds and other pieces of furniture, rather than floors, and often depicted geometric designs and scenes.

5.   Hooked rugs cover the hardwood floors.

6.   In those days, the thick patterns of paint on her canvases suggested flamboyant hooked rugs or giant doilies.

7.   Instead, she chose to fill each room with copious collections of hooked rugs, weather vanes and rustic furniture.

8.   Parish used rag rugs, hooked rugs, quilts, wicker, baskets.

9.   Other hooked rugs look like abstract art.

10.   The gallery does not specialize in hooked rugs, but it always has a few on hand.