Cartoon posters, cartoon napkins, even cartoon plates, but cartoon rugs? Former San Franciscan Dan Golden is producing a line of rugs, made in New York, from a series of his very sardonic cartoons.

Rug making isn't just for adults. "They're punched rugs. The back of a pattern faces them and they punch their wool through to the front. Hooking involves having the front face you and, working from ...