Maker hooks

Original Dune

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Paul Muad'Dib Calling His First Sandworm, Paul Atreides with Maker hooks (illustration by John Schoenherr, The Illustrated Dune)

Maker hooks are Fremen tools used to ride the gigantic Sandworms across large distances in the desert. They are long, narrow shafts that can be used to open a scale on a Sandworm's armor and cause sand to spill into the soft innards, causing the worm to roll over, protecting the opened scale, thus allowing Fremen to mount and ride the Sandworm.

Images of Maker hooks

Paul learning to ride the sandworm (art by John Schoenherr, The Illustrated Dune)

Maker hooks illustration for The Dune Encyclopedia (art by Matt Howarth)

Stilgar with a Maker hook (art by John Schoenherr)

Maker hooks in adaptations

Maker hook designs (Dune, 1984)

Paul Atreides with Maker hooks (Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries, 2000)

Dr. Liet Kynes readying Maker hooks (Dune, 2021)

Fremen wormriding on the back of a sandworm with the help of Maker hooks (Dune, 2021)

Chani in stillsuit and cloak while wormriding with the help of Maker hooks (Dune: Part Two, 2024)

See also

• Maker hook (Dune Encyclopedia) - Article on the the depiction of Maker hooks in the (semi-canon) The Dune Encyclopedia.
• Thumper - Another Fremen-developed mechanical device essential to wormriding, used for luring a passing sandworm to a rider by a series of rhytmic thumping.
• Fremkit - Fremen-developed desert survival kit, includes thumpers and maker hooks among other essential equipment.
• Images of Maker hooks