Resources
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The Blaydon Races Pre/ Post-visit Resource
Pre Visit Resource: Familiarise your group with the Shipley
Pre-visit Information for teachers
After you've booked a visit, take a look at our Pre-visit information for teachers and group leaders. It contains all the information you'll need for planning your day at the Shipley.
Self-led Resources
Post-visit: Hooky and Proggy Mats - a Beginner's Guide
The tradition of making rag mats isn't unique to the North East but the terms hooky and proggy are. They are also known as clippy mats, proddy mats and peg rugs, for example.
Like many crafts, mat-making was originally born out of necessity, but today is very much about the pleasure of making and the growing interest in recycling.
Download the set of instructions below, put together by textile artist Ali Rhind, to take you through the process of making proggy and hooky rugs as well as making the frames and tools. If you are interested in running a hooky or proggy project with your class, we have a set of small frames and tools that we can loan you for a month. Get in touch with the Learning Team to find out more:
shipley.learning@twmuseums.org.uk or (0191) 278 1937
How to: Hooky and Proggy Guide
And check out the accompanying instructional film :
