Primitive rug hooking is enjoying a revival and is one of the most popular forms of fiber art today. Learn to create your own heirloom-quality primitive pictorial rugs that incorporate elements and symbols with historic landmarks to personalize your design. Preserving the Past in Primitive Rugs, brought to you by Rug Hooking magazine, provides an easy to understand approach to hooking primitive rugs from beginning to end. Author Barbara Brown will lead you through the basic approaches to primitive hooking and start you on a journey that will result in rugs that will be cherished by generations to come. Filled with tips on the importance of proper placement of motifs in the design--what the focus is, why one object is larger than another, and how to design a rug from past memories. Study dozens of Barbara's designs to see how the use of different elements and symbols can greatly influence the final outcome of the rug. Originally published by Rug Hooking magazine in 2000, the book has been reprinted by popular demand.