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Jean Ketch registered her 1988 heraldic rug with the N.B. Mat Registry, ensuring her family’s story in wool is preserved for future generations.
Her heraldic rug joins a provincial project that keeps makers’ stories from being lost
Polina Kozlova · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 24, 2026 4:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 23 minutes ago
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Jean Ketch holds the heraldic rug she hooked in 1988, at the New Brunswick Mat Registry event at Government House in Fredericton on Oct. 24. (Polina Kozlova/CBC)
Jean Ketch brought two hooked rugs to Government House in Fredericton on Saturday to have them included in the New Brunswick Mat Registry.
The registry is a provincewide project documenting hooked rugs made in New Brunswick that are at least 25 years old.
One of Ketch’s rugs includes a heraldic shield filled with items like a curling stone, a baseball bat and a hockey stick.
“This is a history of my family,” Ketch says, explaining that every object on the rug symbolizes a loved one.
Ketch began hooking around 1980 and was a founding member of Fredericton’s Heritage Rug Hooking Guild.
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