PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Savaree Hazard-Chaney is making history in the capital city. The Providence artist opened TuftxPVD, Rhode Island’s first Black-owned rug tufting studio, a few years ago.
Smiley is doing primitive rug hooking, a craft brought to the eastern United States in the mid-1800s. It is different from the perhaps more familiar latch rug hooking done with yarn that is knotted.
STANFORDVILLE – "A Collection of Hooked Rugs," presented by the arts nonprofit Creative Crossroads, opened this weekend at the Stanford Grange in Stanfordville. The free exhibition features dozens of ...