Teacher will contact students prior to class: Yes
Level: Basic – students must have basic rug hooking knowledge & experience.
Supply description: Photo fabric printing supplies and instructional handouts.
Students Need to Bring: Basic hooking supplies: a frame, scissors, cutter, cutter blades (size depends on your project), & hook. Students will also bring a printed photograph, linen backing, and coordinating wool to use for hooking their project. Much more detailed instructions on supplies will be sent by instructor prior to workshop. While the teacher will not have wool for sale, students can shop for wool from a wide variety of Rug Hooking Week Vendors, Wednesday – Friday 10-5 or during their class lunch break.
Bio:
Rémi has always been intrigue by fabric. Like many of you he was brought up in a home surrounded by fabric artisans and artists. His mom, grandmothers and aunts were quilters, knitters, crocheters and macrame makers, as well as weavers, clothes makers and designers, and creators of huge braided rugs. They did it all except hooking.
He was first introduced to rug hooking 15 years ago when he arrived early at his piano teacher’s home for his first lesson. He was invited to wait in the living room and there they were, rugs, rugs, and more rugs. The walls and floors were covered with hooked rugs. For the following weeks he made sure to arrive a little early. His piano teacher and hooking artist extraordinaire, noticed his curiosity and prepared for him a bag filled with a frame, backing, yarn, odd cut wool strips and a hook. She showed him how to pulled a few loops and sent him home. For a year or so, he hooked alone at home. It’s after visiting his first rug hooking exhibit two years later that he was literately hooked and joined the group “Les Hookeuses du Bor’de’lo” of Shediac.
At the same time, he developed a passion for photography, winning local awards, and became an active volunteer at the Barachois Museum and Art Gallery. It’s preparing for his first hooking exhibit in 2019, that he experimented with using a photograph in his rug design and the rest is history. He says his only fame to rug hooking is the creation of the Barachois International Collection of Hooked Cushions, a permanent exhibit of over 300 hooked cushions from all around the world.
Like you, Rémi attended multiple courses and workshops, online courses, hook-ins, retreats and one-on-one courses. Rémi has led his “Framing with a Photograph in Your Rug: A Meaningful Journey” workshop with hooking groups in New Brunswick, Canada where he lives.