Both on and off-topic: We visited the Rug-Hooking Capital of the World
-- Cheticamp on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and saw some truly amazing concoctions. I'd only seen it done with strips of cloth, but these people sitting there at frames with balls of yarn attached, hooking calmly away in such skilled detail that the finished pieces were reversible! And the most amazing thing was a portrait of a beloved activist priest who helped the area become self-sufficient and out from under the thumb of the evil mercantile capitalists -- done in hooked yarn so fine it looked like petit point or counted cross-stitch. I have a pic but no place to post it yet; will post when I get through my "trip report" (our first Elderhostel venture, escorting my mother).
Oh, but the trivia: i'd always heard that Canadian French was very different from Parisian French in its vocabulary adoptions, and since all the signs in Cape Breton were bilingual, I picked up a lot of French. Rug-hooking there is "tapis hooke'"(I don't know how to put that accent over the e) instead of "tapis crochete'."