Suppliers and Vendors

Karen Kaiser, an artist by birth and a graphic designer by trade, continues to create and experiment with many mediums … especially traditional rug hooking. Visit her website or studio (in Belleville, Ontario) and enjoy brightly-coloured wool, ideas and workshops to sign up for. Karen will personally help with colour choice, and you can have a pattern traced while you shop in studio.

“To live a creative life you must lose the fear of being wrong.“ — Karen Kaiser

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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 several different textile art forms: rug hooking, quilting, wool appliqué, felting and punch hooking and mini punch hooking. Her Etsy site offers patterns and wool in Maud Lewis colours as well as other artists she features. 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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Gunda has combined two passions, rug hooking and woodworking, to create a brilliant line of products designed specifically for rug hookers that she personally makes by hand in her workshop in Ariss, Ont. Crowsfoot Studio products range from folding cutter tables and travel frames to complete sit-on and floor-mounted stands. Gunda has been a vendor at many hook-ins and ships to customers across Canada and internationally.

“I want rug hookers to have the best tools so they can hook with ease, at home, at hook-ins, anywhere!” — “Gunda Gamble”

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DREAMS & CREATIONS is a small business located in Spencerville, just south of Ottawa. Focussing on Having Fun With Fibres, we cater to rug hookers, felters, weavers, spinners and other fibre artists. We’re a Canadian dealer for Fraser Rug Cutter Co. In addition to selling Fraser and Bliss cutters and blades, we provide overhauls from small repairs to major problems and sharpen blades. We also sell Louet spinning wheels, looms and blending boards. Plus, we carry fibres and yarns, felting equipment and a variety of tools and supplies – all to help you create your works of art and have fun with fibres.

We can help you find just what you’re looking for. Contact us anytime.

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Wendo Van Essen’s career was as one of the “drawers” on traditional feature animated films. Once the computer took over, Wendo realized she wanted to keep working with her hands, so she started her fibre art business. Her job has been a large influence on her work, and she likes to create fun whimsical sculptures in wool. Wendo uses the technique called needle felting to poke wool fibres into place, whether it’s in a landscape or a three-dimensional character.

“I’m always looking for different ways to express myself … In fact, I’ve fallen in love with rug hooking too … I use my wool fibre and the textures are gorgeous!” — Wendo Van Essen

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Loretta Moore discovered hooking over 20 years ago, giving up quilting, beading, knitting, cross stitch and more to become an addicted hooker. She began teaching and making kits due to the difficulty in finding supplies in the area. Her focus is primitive: dyeing primitive colours, offering an extensive variety of primitive patterns (only on primitive linen) and kits. And then there is this other side: Loretta also does exquisite miniature punch needle, offering supplies including needles, hoops, kits and beautiful threads.

“Primitive rug hooking is my obsession and my passion.” – Loretta Moore

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As the name Hooking Outside the Lines suggests, Robin likes to do things differently and encourages other hookers to express themselves in whatever way feels right to them. She loves to share her passion for rug hooking, designing rugs and using alternative materials through various online classes for all levels and a weekly membership group called the Creativity Club for rug hookers. Robin also sells supplies, kits and mixed fibre packs on her website.

“Hooking outside the lines: where we celebrate all things rug hooking, creativity and community.” — Robin Whitford

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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 wool related items.
As a rug hooker himself, he makes his rug hooking frames so they can turn and tilt. Using beautiful cherry wood and maple wood these frames are sturdy and light.

“Keep rug hooking alive” — Jacques Lepage

  • 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 studio offers a large selection of wool, patterns and a complete line of rug hooking supplies. Your source for our “Studio Line” products of linen, wool and alternative fibers. Shop in person or the website at your convenience.

“Through my original hooked rugs I continue to preserve this fibre art of our ancestors to be enjoyed by collectors worldwide. With the addition of rug hooking supplies, wool, patterns, kits and classes, it is my goal to inspire others to create heirlooms that will be cherished today and by future generations.” — Martina Lesar

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Isabelle Rollin designs her own hooked rugs and, due to the increase in requests, recently began making patterns to sell.
Isabelle also offers personalized wooden name tags, exclusive hand painted magnetic wooden scissor holders, scissor or bag identifiers (also great as ornaments) and more.

“Bring beauty and joy into this world.” — Isabelle Rollin

  • 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.

“It is great to watch students learn to hook and to witness their excitement as they discover their new-found talents.” — Carol Shewan

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