Hooked Rugs Today

Amy Oxford is the founder of the Oxford Rug Hooking School and is a nationally renowned instructor. She's been teaching the craft since 1986, and her teacher certification program has over the past three decades resulted in over 130 Oxford Certified Instructors in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, the UAE, and Japan. Amy is the inventor, manufacturer, and distributor of the Oxford Punch Needle and is the founder of Red Clover Rugs, a rug hooking shop and mail order business. Amy has been licensed by the Shelburne Museum to make adaptations of their antique rugs, and has helped catalog the museum’s renowned collection of historic hooked rugs. She is the author of seven books including the original bestseller Punch Needle Rug Hooking; Intermediate & Advanced Punch Needle Rug Hooking; and four volumes of Hooked Rugs Today. amyoxford.com Cynthia McAdoo has been photographing hooked rugs for over twenty-fiveyears. She has also designed and hooked rugs for her family business,McAdoo Rugs, of North Bennington, Vermont.