As Koehler described it, traditional rug hooking employs a woven foundation such as burlap. Rug hookers pull strips of fabric — not yarn — through the base, making loops on the top of the rug.

A man, barefoot atop a burlap rug, holding an adorable infant staring at a bowl of brown eggs. A woman in a white bathrobe perched on the edge of a bathtub, hair in a chignon, setting the water ...

Soon after the Civil War, a tin peddler from Maine named Edward Sands Frost began to produce burlap rug backings with stenciled patterns on them for those who couldn’t or didn’t want to create ...