The only juried exhibit of the year's best hand-hooked rugs Full-page color spreads of 60 beautiful rugs Reader's Choice Ballot--vote for your favorite rugs Each year expert judges choose the 60 best hand-hooked rugs from the many rugs entered into the juried competition known as Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs. In 2010, RHM celebrates the twentieth annual competition with our annual book, Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs XX, showcasing the best of the best. Each winning rug is presented as a 2-page spread that includes a photo of the entire rug, a close-up detail of the fine workmanship, and comments from the artist and the judges. Celebration is eagerly awaited each year and is overflowing with inspiration for all who are interested in fiber arts.

The only juried exhibit of the year's best hand-hooked rugs Full-page color spreads of 62 beautiful rugs Readers' Choice ballot--vote for your favorite rugs Three distinct categories of rugs: original designs, commercial designs, and adaptations Each year expert judges choose the best hand-hooked rugs from the many rugs entered into the annual juried competition known as Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs. Now in its 21st year, the competition showcases rugs from all over the US and Canada. Each winning rug is presented as a 2-page spread that includes a photo of the rug, a close-up detail highlighting fine workmanship, and comments from the artist and the judges. Celebration is eagerly awaited each year and is overflowing with inspiration for all who are interested in fiber arts.

The best of the best, the rugs chosen by rug hookers themselves, these rugs were voted the favorites by the readers of Rug Hooking magazine.

• International juried exhibit of the year's best hand-hooked rugs • 77 beautiful hooked rugs • 59 close-up details • Includes both traditional and original rugs Each year, expert judges choose the best hand-hooked rugs from the many rugs entered into the annual juried competition known as Celebration. Now in its 23rd year, the competition showcases rugs from all over the US, Canada, and from around the world. Each winning rug is presented in a full-color spread that includes a photo of the rug, a close-up detail highlighting fine workmanship, and comments from the artist and the judges. Celebration is eagerly awaited each year and is overflowing with inspiration for all who are interested in fiber arts.

A collection of short stories.

Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings, dyed in soft hues, is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. For generations Newfoundland women had augmented their family's unreliable fishing income with a "matting season" in February and March. Through the Grenfell Mission's Industrial Department, set up in 1909 to help develop cottage industries, the mat industry became an increasingly important source of income reaching peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the women's mats became renowned for their strong design, meticulous craftsmanship, and distinctive northern images chronicling life in the north. Reindeer, sled dog teams, polar bears, schooners, outports, and florals are but a few of the mat designs.Silk Stocking Mats is the result of over seventeen years of exhaustive research and draws on personal interviews with older women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination of countless Grenfell hooked mats. Laverty's book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions including rare and unusual as well as common mat designs.

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom. From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.