Barbara carroll rug hooking

Barbara Ann Carroll, born 2 September 1940 into this world and 12 June 2022 into the next one, knows how to throw a party.  In the corner of heaven inhabited by creative souls, the party may never end.

Known around the world by practitioners of the art of primitive rug hooking, Barb has spent four decades learning, mastering and spreading the skills of rug pattern design, hooking technique, and especially her own virtuoso sense of color and texture usage.

Barb is the co-author of four books on various rug hooking topics and has written dozens of feature articles for rug hooking magazines. 

While living in Sedalia, MO in the early 1980s Barb and her pal Bobbie True drove to Kansas City and crashed a class being taught by Emma Lou Lais, the great big band era singer who learned rug hooking from her mother.  Emma Lou tolerated the intrusion but gave them small projects meant to discourage them.  They kept coming back, projects completed, an