Seeing Red and Other Wondrous Things

Unku with staggered and linear designs, 500 AD - 700 AD (Collection: MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima)

There is a new website that is gaining a lot of interest.  It's not specifically about rug hooking, but is about art and culture.  If you're like me and enjoy looking at interesting art works and galleries, etc. then you might be interested in perusing the site.  It's called Google Arts and Culture.  You can click here to go to the site.  If you have an iPad, you can go to the app store and download the app.

One of the feature articles today is on the colour red - a very interesting read!  Click here to get to the article.

You can read the articles presented on the site (they change daily), or you can search for a topic of interest, like specific artists, or style of painting/sculpture (like impressionism), or art gallery (and get a virtual tour of a celebrated museum!).   It needs a bit better Canadian content, but there are certainly US, European and Asian stuff well represented.  This could be a very useful site when you're doing research for a rug based on a specific style (like oriental rugs!).

Of course I couldn't resist searching on Hooked Rugs and got a great selection of rugs that are in the Washington Gallery of Art, along with a number of photographs from Life Magazine taken in the 50's of what looks to be a very large hook-in.  It doesn't say where this is, but you can clearly see rugs, cheticamp frames and even a dyeing demonstration.  Here is a small sampling of the photos.

Enjoy!