Nola Heidbreder

Nola Heidbreder
St Louis, MO

I work with, teach and demonstrate a variety of fiber arts including traditional rug hooking, toothbrush rugs, broomstick rugs, wagon wheel rugs, shirring, locker hooking, proddy rugs, wool appliqué, knitting and crocheting and braiding.  I love working with recycled items to turn them into rugs, purses and wall hangings.  I have had several articles featured in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion Magazine, Rug Hooking Magazine, and ATHA.  Some of my work has won ribbons and awards at Sauder Village in Ohio and at the Missouri State Fair.  I have pieces in the books, Hooked on Rugs and Creative Hooker by Jessie Turbayne, and designed purses for the book, Hooked on Wool, published by Martingale, pieces in Hooked Rugs Today, by Amy Oxford and Contemporary Hooked Rugs by Linda Rae Coughlin.  I had a rug in an international traveling rug hooking exhibit and catalog, The “Art” of Playing Cards.  In December of 2012 I demonstrated rug hooking on TV in California.  My recent Presidential Project was in the Webster-Kirkwood Times in August 2013.  I currently work out of my studio in the city of St. Louis.  I teach in my studio and across the country at workshops.  I also do rug repair and historic demonstrations.

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