Suppliers and Vendors

Karen Kaiser is a graphic designer by trade with a certificate in teaching. She offers services such as personalized colour planning and design consultations and custom dyeing on 100% Dorr wool. Karen also teaches workshops at both the beginner and advanced levels and sells her own patterns and kits.

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Barbara’s goal is to honour Canadian artists in textile form, passing on the beauty created by one generation to the next as they become treasured heirlooms. Maud Lewis, the renowned Nova Scotian folk artist, is one of the artists Barbara showcases in her rug hooking, punch needle and mini-punch needle kits. She sells backings as well as patterns and wool in Maud Lewis colours. Visit Barbara’s website for more. Rug hookers in Ottawa can arrange for local pickup of their purchases and avoid shipping charges.

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Crowsfoot Studio creates a line of quality products designed specifically for rug hookers that the owner, Gunda Gamble, makes by hand in her workshop in Ariss, Ont. Her products range from folding cutter tables and travel frames to complete sit-on and floor-mounted stands. Gunda has been a vendor at rug hooking events and ships to customers across Canada and internationally.

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Debbie’s Studio is the showroom for Impressions In Wood and Quilters Woodwork. It specializes in handcrafted, ergonomically correct tools for fibre artists, including high-quality gripper frames, hoops, and hooks for rug hookers. The studio is open by appointment. The full range of their products is shown in detail on their web site.

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DREAMS & CREATIONS, owned by Maureen and Al Robertson, is a small business located in Spencerville (just south of Ottawa). It caters to rug hookers and other fibre artists and is a Canadian dealer for Fraser wool cutters. In addition to selling Fraser and Bliss cutters and blades, Dreams & Creations provides servicing for cutters, from small repairs to major problems and sharpening blades. They also carry a selection of fibres and yarns and a variety of tools and supplies for fibre artists.

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Wendo Van Essen is a fibre artist who specializes in needle felting. She creates “vegan taxidermy” animal sculptures and will do custom pet portraits on request. Wendo sells needle felt supplies and a range of kits for creating fun whimsical sculptures in wool as well as teaching workshops at fibre events.

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Heartfelt Fibre Arts is a Toronto studio specializing in high-quality, unique fibre and tools for rug hookers and fibre artists. The studio is open by appointment for in-person shopping. Fibre enthusiasts can also shop on its web site for delivery or curbside pick-up. Workshops are also offered.

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Loretta Moore discovered hooking over 20 years ago and began teaching and making kits due to the difficulty of finding supplies in her local area. Her focus is on the primitive style of rugs: dyeing primitive colours, offering an extensive variety of primitive patterns (only on primitive linen) and kits. Loretta also does exquisite miniature punch needle, offering supplies including needles, hoops, kits and beautiful threads for mini-punch.

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Hooking Outside The Lines is a fibre art business founded and led by Robin Whitford, an Advanced Oxford Certified Instructor. She teaches both rug hooking and Oxford Punch Needle online and in person, helping fibre artists develop strong skills and creative confidence at every stage. Robin offers workshops, self-paced courses, and leads The Creativity Club for Rug Makers — a thriving online membership community. In addition to education, she retails genuine Oxford Punch Needle products, including Violet Jane yarn, and serves as a Canadian distributor for The Oxford Company, supplying wholesale products to shops and teachers across Canada.

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With over 40 years’ experience as a cabinet maker, Jacques Lepage makes wooden rug hooking frames, punch hooking frames, and other wooden fibre-related items.
As a rug hooker himself, Jacques makes his rug hooking frames so they can turn and tilt. Using beautiful cherry wood and maple wood, these frames are sturdy and light.

  • For more information:
  • E-mail: jacisa@live.ca
  • Cell: 450-288-3201
  • Home 450-371-5115
  • Jacques Lepage
  • 159 Alexandre
  • Valleyfield, Quebec
  • J6S 3J1

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Nestled in the hills of Caledon, the Martina Lesar Hooked Rug Studio has a large selection of wool, patterns, kits and a complete range of rug hooking supplies, including its own “Studio Line” products of linen, wool and alternative fibers. It also hosts workshops and rug hooking retreats. Shop in person or on the website at your convenience.

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Isabelle Rollin designs her own hooked rugs and makes her original designs available as patterns and kits.
Isabelle also offers personalized wooden name tags, exclusive hand painted magnetic wooden scissor holders, scissor or bag identifiers (also great as ornaments) and more.

  • For more information:
  • E-mail: jacisa@live.ca
  • Cell 450-288-3201
  • Home 450-371-5115
  • Isabelle Rollin
  • 159 Alexandre
  • Valleyfield, Quebec J6S 3J1

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Several years ago, Willow Creek Rug Hooking began as a sideline to Carol’s teaching. With a love of dyeing wool, the “stash” just kept growing and was not all being used by her students so it made sense to sell outside the classroom. Now Willow Creek is carrying its own brand of hoops, as well as several styles of hooks and scissors. The hand-dyed wool is largely Dorr natural, with a few textures added here and there. There are original Willow Creek patterns, as well as several other artists’ designs.

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