Judy Taylor Books

Save That Rug! A How-To Guide for Repairing Hooked Rugs shows everything you need to know to repair and refurbish hand-hooked rugs, with dozens of repair projects demonstrating multiple strategies (repairing stains, snags, moth damage and worn edges), care and cleaning, plus hundreds of pictures and illustrations. Any rug hooker can learn these skills and give these treasured heirloom rugs a new look and decades more use.

Winner of the eLit Book Awards, 2021

Winner of the Chanticleer Book Awards, 2020

142 pages

Reviews:

The Rosetta Stone for rug repair… This is the definitive guide for repairing hooked rugs… timely, up to date, thorough, intelligent… It’s very easy to pick and choose the techniques that would apply to you. For a book that’s about repair, this book has an extraordinary amount of color illustrations of beautiful old rugs… She’s got a great sense of humor, a great way of teaching. She’s very relaxed, not super rule driven. She’s done a phenomenal amount of research, very academic work. She talks about how to delicately wash a rug, pulling parts out, dyeing colors to match, adding things (details), changing backgrounds, stabilizing the edges, filling holes, it’s all in this book. There are so many ideas in this book that are beyond just fixing holes and stabilizing your borders. I can’t recommend it highly enough. (Coffee Time on Youtube)