Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings is just one of the many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into a internationally acclaimed art form. Silk Stocking Mats draws on personal interviews with older women who recall creating the mats, hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination if countless Grenfell hooked mats. Levertys book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions, including rare and unusual mat designs.