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It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Beaconsfield Hooking Crafters Guild website.

On this site, created some three years ago, you will find several headings: some to answer questions on rug hooking, others to keep you abreast of our various activities. We take great pride in our website and I can assure you that it truly reflects the members of our Guild. Over the last 35 years, crafters of all ages have been hooking and exhibiting rugs on a regular basis in order to make this textile art-artisanal form (both terms apply) more widely known and appreciated.

 

Members meet on Mondays and one Saturday a month, from September to May – between 10 AM and 2 PM at Centennial Hall in Beaconsfield, QC. These very informal get-togethers give us an opportunity to help one another and share information about our own work. Apart from these weekly meetings, workshops are held to teach newcomers and more advanced crafters how to perfect their art. We offer a library with an extensive collection of books and periodicals. Also, you may display your work on our website and at our bi-annual exhibition - all incentives for you to become a member of our Guild.

 

Prior to concluding, I would like to share with you why I became a member. I was so amazed by the warm welcome I received and, since then, each meeting affords me the opportunity to become more and more proficient in my favourite pastime.

 

Louise G. de Tonnancour,

President

Smoked Salmon. Ailish O'Keeffe
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Click to visit the Earlier Featured Rugs Page to know the rug's story.

A little fish with Big Dreams

 

The Beaconsfield Rug Hooking Web site is a new little fish in the Internet Sea. We need to feed it and help it to grow. Our little fish will swim from our club house into Lac St-Louis and he will go to the ocean of his dreams and imagination.  

 

We are open to new ideas and suggestions to develop this Internet project. We are continuously updating this site. One month after the opening we have created a French version of this site. We also added three sections called "Works in progress" and "Glossary of terms", as well as the Recipes page.

 

Members of the Guild can collaborate in many ways: adding your comments, writing rug hooking tips, sending pictures of your rugs or helping us to update the Events Calendar section.

 

 

Web site comittee:

Maria M. Romero, Designer / Webmaster

Rose Kandy, Editor / Translator