Lois Morris / In the News
Rug Hooking Magazine / September - October 2014
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| Rug Hooking Magazine, September - October 2014 |
Learning From The MastersFine-Art Inspiration For Rug Hookers
Text By Tamara Pavich
Lois Morris
Lois Morris, resident teacher of the Beaconsfield Rug
Hooking Crafters Guild, has taught classes on portraits, monochromatics and
dyeing, and she published a comprehensive article on hooking portraits in 1979.
“I was looking for another portrait that appealed to me,” Lois said, “a face
that had some character to use as a teaching tool. I took Claude Monet’s ‘Poly’
from an art book. When my students choose to hook something fine-art inspired,
they will learn some new hooking technique they must achieve to capture the
look,” Lois said. “And they gain a new way of looking at fine art in general.
Then later, they try something original, and I hope they have expanded
their confidence in their abilities. Eventually, they will develop a style of
their own.”
Lois rarely hooks with anything wider than a #4 cut, and #3
is her favorite. The cut makes it possible to include minute details in a small
rug. Though this rug is not strictly monochromatic, it allowed Lois to engage
in one of her favorite challenges: dyeing many shades of a single color. For
Poly, she used many shades of flesh tones and blues. The flesh tones were made
by mixing blue with its complement., orange.
The above is an extract from an article on Teachers of Rug
Hooking entitled Learning from the Masters pages 8-17, published in Rug HookingMagazine –vol. XXVI – Number 2, September-October 2014. Reprinted here with
permission from the editor, Debra Smith. We encourage everyone to visit
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