Ok, my grandmother in law has got my wife interested in this hobby, which is she says is called hooking but isn’t the rugs.
I’ve been trying to google up info, but all I get is Hook Rugs, which is latch-hooking, which isn’t apparently what it is.
Apparently you can use this method to make scarves and the like.
Does anyone have any idea what it may be? Links to stuff about it?
Note: this is not knitting, nor is it crochet. Apparently it’s rather old, because you can’t buy the supplies for it at Micheals or JoAnnes.
So I figured I would come here, to see what the Millions which Teem may have to say on it.
It is like hooking rugs in many respects but more like knitting with an entirely different stitch.
Betcha can. They just don’t know what you want.
The tool is like a large crochet hook with a flexible piece between the handle and the hook. The yarn is yarn of whatever size needed. Afquan Hook
Then there is this thing called tatting. NOT like in Tit for Tat.
I got a chance to look at the tool used in this art. It’s odd. It’s certainly nothing I’ve ever seen before.
It resembles a crochet hook, in that it is a long slender tube. But rather than the hook on the end, there is a loop, a fully closed circle. Think of the eye of a needle, done larger and in plastic.
There are also two small plastic bits along the shaft that hold that yarn that is being used as it runs along the length of the shaft, and into (and through) the loop.
I have been googling again, to no avial.
She says it’s called a “looper”.
Casting my net into the teeming millions once again!
Way back in the late 60s I had something similar to this Grant’s Looper. The output resembled simple crochet. This seems to be close to the instrument you are describing.
A much older form of needle looping, Nålbinding, is done with a large needle and makes for a dense fabric. A list of resources is at the bottom of the page.