Bidspirit auction | Cheticamp Hooked Rug

Cheticamp Hooked Rug - Cheticamp Hooked Rug ca. 1940. Vintage hand hooked rug made in traditional Cheticamp style on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Cheticamp rug tradition began with rag hooking. Women would take old clothing, cut it into long strips, and hook those fabric strips into rugs. Rug-making became a cottage industry, and an important though not lucrative income source for Cheticamp families. Through the off season fishermen would help their wives hook rugs that sold for a fraction of their worth in labor hours.