Placentia West Mat Makers hooker rug On July 24, 2019, Dale and I drove to Boat Harbour on the Burin Peninsula to chat with four hookers...

Bring your favourite hooked mat for a show-and-tell, and have tea and a conversation with some of Placentia West's traditional rug...

Ruth Pilgrim holds a knitting project, St. Anthony Bight. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2010 Today's Folklore Photos come from St. Anthony c...

Dale Wells assembles her mat hooking frame, St. Anthony. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2010 Today's Folklore Photos come from St. Anthony co...

Ruth has been a mat maker since 1995. She works primarily with wool yarn to create mats which capture Newfoundland and Labrador past a...

Participants of the last presentation of the day. Today’s Tuesday Folklore photos come from the Girl Guides of Canada’s 2016 National Tr...

Traditional Newfoundland Rug Hooking Workshop with Vickie Walsh Celebrate The Newfoundland Pony Join us for a day of Rug Hooking Make ...

In this edition of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Update for Newfoundland and Labrador, a group of folklore students under the directio...

On Wednesday, March 11th, I spent the afternoon with 47 hookers. “Tea… With Hookers!” was an event sponsored by the Intangible Cultural Heri...

It is not nearly so shocking as it sounds, I swear! We've got two exciting (and PG-rated) intangible cultural heritage events coming up...

Back in August, I blogged about the possibility of using a USB footpedal and transcription software for doing transcriptions of digital mate...