American Hooked and Sewn Rugs by Joel Kopp, Kate Kopp (1995, Paperback, Reprint)

A must have book for those interested in historical hooked rugs. This 1995 reprint is a little larger and more readily available than the original 1975 edition.

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

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, first published in 1975, then expanded and reissued in 1985, 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. With over 230 illustrations, nearly half of them in color, 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.