Stitches

What do you call this craft?

Back in the late 60's, I remember doing needlework with a flat needle where you 'punched' yarn through a piece of fabric, and just continued punching stitches right beside each other to make a row of stitching. The needle had a plastic handle, with the needle being about a quarter of an inch wide. Does anyone remember what this is called, or what the needle is called? This is not latch hook. When you hook a rug, you are not pushing yarn through a piece of fabric, you are tying a piece of yarn around a piece of netting. And you are not using a needle, but are using a hook.

Public Comments

1. What you describe sounds similar to "latch-hook", but I am not sure, as that is normally used for rugs and "decorative" hanging pictures, etc.
2. Punchcraft? One side (the "wrong" side) just had the stitches on it; the "right" side had loops (the length of which could be adjusted via the punchcraft tool). If I remember rightly, the thread (on a spool) was held on the handle of the tool, and threaded through the needle (which was hollow) and out through a hole in the point of the needle.
3. It's either punch-needle embroidery (US term for the British Punchcraft) or latchhook. Your description isn't complete enough to tell for sure. Go to Google Images and look up each term. You can then see which one it is that you mean.
4. It 's called rug hooking you can do it with a hooked needle or one that the yarn gets pushed through the fabric and you grab and hold that loop as you pull the needle back out