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How to Hook Faces

Tish-Murphy

Tish Murphy

Dates: 2 days – Friday and Saturday, 8/15 - 8/16, 2025
Time:  9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Class Fee: $250.00 / Sauder Village Member $230.00
Level:  Intermediate
Supply Fee:  None
Pick your own project! If you'd like to order from Tish or have her custom-draw a pattern for you, it will come an additional cost.
 

Description:   

Hooking faces is very satisfying and at the same time is one of the more challenging hooking experiences. It takes concentration skills and observation skills that go beyond typical rug hooking.

This workshop is recommended for those who have good hooking skills and are looking to learn skills in hooking a human face or portrait, such as:

    - eyes

    - nose

    - mouth

    - ears

    - shading faces

    - hair

Students must choose a project with a face in it!

Options are:

    - buy an existing commercial pattern or order one of Tish Murphy's patterns

    - do an original self portrait using a photo as the basis of the pattern

    - do an original character piece

#4 - #6 cuts are commonly used for hooking a face. It will be necessary for the teacher to be informed of the student's choice well in advance.  It is preferable to have the teacher draw the pattern from a photo if the student is doing a portrait.

Students Need to Bring: Basic rug hooking supplies

Bio: 

Tish has been rug hooking for more than 35 years, inspired to learn the craft after seeing vintage hooked rugs displayed on the floors of a friend’s historic home. She brought to this endeavor a lifetime of creating as well as the artistic discipline honed while completing degrees in both Fine Art and Art History.  While her body of work is eclectic in content, style and format, she has made a specialty of hooking faces….a challenge she loves. It is in that area that she has made her major contribution to the rug hooking world.

For almost 20 years, Tish taught at workshops across the US - Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Arizona, and Illinois and is so proud of the work her students accomplished. 

She has appeared regularly in Rug Hooking Magazine since its inception, gracing the cover as well as writing articles explaining her techniques.

She has taken part in exhibits around her home state, Canada and Japan.

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