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Sauder Village
22611 St. Rt. 2
Archbold, Ohio 43502
In Northwest Ohio
1-800-590-9755
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As a destination of choice, Sauder Village offers guests experiences rich in history, hospitality, creativity & fun.
Date: Morning - Saturday, August 18, 2012 – 9:00 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. In this lecture and demonstration, Donna will explain elements of rug borders, why they make a difference in composition, how they can add depth and definition to a rug, and how to create a border for your rug design. Donna will show examples of borders in her own work, explain how to calculate size and dimension, and how to choose colors to make an effective border that enhances the quality of your rug design. Donna will discuss special techniques like beading for detail. Level: Basic Skills – students must have basic rug hooking knowledge & experience. Students Need to Bring: Nothing, unless you would like to bring a rug that you are working on in order to get help with the border. Bio: Donna has been an artist all her life. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting, and went on to do freelance illustration work for Kindred Spirits. She began stenciling and started her own stencil design business, doing additional work as a freelance designer for the Daisy Kingdom Fabric Company. She has written articles for Rug Hooking Magazine, including a cover article in 2006 of her Women of the Congo rug. Recently several of her rugs were included in Anne-Marie Littenberg's Hooked Rug Portraits book. Donna enjoys teaching rug hooking workshops, sharing techniques and tips to help students design their own rugs. Donna has taught at the Manistee Rug School in Michigan, Buckeye Rug Hooking Guild in Ohio and at Rug Hooking Week. When she isn't hooking, she's spending time with her family of her husband, three sons, dog and cat. Specialties: Designing and hooking people and animals working in the finer cuts like #3, 4, and 5. Creating textures in fur, feathers, and hair, and capturing expressions found in the faces of people and animals.
Sauder Village 16th Annual Rug Hooking Week
2012
Workshops: (1/2-Day, 1-Day & 2-Day): Wednesday - Saturday, August 15 - 18, 2012
“Knowing our Borders”
Lecture & Demonstration with Donna Hrkman
Class Fee: $50.00 / Members $46.00
Kit Fee: $5.00 - payable to teacher at the beginning of class
Location: Heritage Inn – Homestead B
Donna’s Website: www.blueribbonrugs.com
Description: Rug borders can encompass a major part of a rug design, but often they don't. They enhance the pattern in many ways, through color, repetition of design elements, or even continuation of the main design, but often rug hookers ignore their potential completely.
There will be time for questions at the end of class. Students are welcome to bring the rugs they are working on to class; Donna will help students with their border dilemmas. 
Supply description: Booklet of information, paper, and pens for taking notes. 
Donna was introduced to rug hooking nine years ago. She has designed her own rugs right from the start and has exhibited them in various venues, including every Sauder Village exhibit since 2003, a one month show at a local fine art gallery, and several other art shows as well. The Paul Laurence Dunbar rug, done in sepia tones, was commissioned by the Ohio Historical Society’s Dunbar House. Donna works by commission much of the time, creating rugs for people who have fallen in love with the beauty of hooked artwork.
Her rugs have been chosen as Finalists in Celebrations XVI, XVIII, XX, XXI and the Veteran's Day rug was voted third in the Celebration People's Choice Issue in 2010. At the Sauder Village exhibit she won an Honorable Mention ribbon for Women of the Congo and People's Choice ribbons in the Theme Challenge category for her Veteran's Day rug in 2010 and in the People/Places/Pictorials category for Ah-Chee-Lo, Native American Boy rug in 2011. 