Dec 2, 2024 | Historic Craft
Wendy Jensen Wendy Jensen is an award winning basket maker living in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. She has been making baskets for over 25 years professionally and her baskets are influenced by historical ash splint basket makers, particularly the Shakers...
Dec 2, 2024 | Fiber Arts, Historic Craft
Stephanie Allen-Krauss Stephanie Allen-Krauss is a fourth generation rug hooker and learned rug hooking at and early from my mother, Anne Ashworth, a nationally-known rug hooking teacher. During her teenage years, Stephanie learned about dyeing wool fabric, and later...
Dec 2, 2024 | Fiber Arts, Historic Craft
Rabbit Goody I started weaving when I was in my late teens, without any real instruction – the first book I had was Sunset’s How to Weave book, but it came very naturally to me and my first real experiences were with Dee Ertel in her shop in Bennington, VT and then...
Dec 2, 2024 | Historic Craft
Sandra Kehoe Sandra studies traditional willow basket making from teachers around the United States, Denmark and the UK. She has a strong focus in rib style willow basketry and weaving with bark. She teaches basketry classes and workshops in multiple mediums, at craft...
Dec 2, 2024 | Historic Craft
Ruth Boland Ruth Boland has been a basketmaker since 1991, a state-juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen since 2002, and is a past member of the Board of the Northeast Basketmakers Guild. Her hand shaped baskets often involve strong colors, intricate patterns...
Dec 2, 2024 | Historic Craft
Regina and Dan St. John Have been a full-time professional fabric and paper marblers for the past 30 years. Their work is recognized nationally, and they are frequently called upon by bookbinders and book artists to produce a wide range of specific traditional and...
