The art of rug hooking

Doctors, with hand injuries, who had themselves been helped through hooking, advised all patients with similar injuries to hook to limber up their muscles.

One of the teachers even taught a blind boy to hook! His facial injury was beyond description, so he was always alone and behind a screen. She hooked the outlines of a geometric square which formed a sort of hooked Braille.

Then, from a medley of colors, which she placed in certain positions on his frame, he could choose the desired color. He had beautiful hands! When he left for Valley Forge for face surgery, he was much less lonely than he had been before he started handcraft.

How tired we used to get! We tramped what seemed like miles of ramps between wards. And at the end of the day there would be delays, waiting for busses and a long ride home. But it was worth it!