American Hooked and Sewn Rugs by Joel Kopp, Kate Kopp (1975, Book, Illustrated)

A must have book for those interested in historical hooked rugs. This 128 page book is packed with 213 color and clear b/w plates. This book was republished.

It's probably the basic book for collectors of hooked rugs. This book has the best collection of pictures of antique rugs available.

Many patterns that are currently sold as "antique" or "adapted from an antique" are patterns adapted from the rugs in the Kopp book.

Author Name: Kopp, Joel; Kopp, Kate
Title: American Hooked and Sewn Rugs: Folk Art Underfoot
Binding: Soft Cover
Edition: First
Publisher: Dutton 1975

About this title: In 1974 Joel and Kate Kopp were guest curators for the ground-breaking and very popular exhibition of hooked rugs held at the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. In that exhibition and in this book, the Kopps brought a new eye to the field and showed how the primitive imagery that appears in these rugs often parallels other categories of folk art. The authors trace the development of the hooked rug, from its origins in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century yarn-sewn bed rugs to twentieth-century examples of hooked rugs.