MAINE HOOKED RUGS

PO Box 30

Brooklin, Me 04616-0030

207-359-9878

Ken Carpenter

After creating fine crafts for years, Ken learned to hook rugs in the traditional manner and has set aside all other crafts.  He has compiled an eclectic mix of rugs and continues to try to stretch traditional boundaries.

Ken's rugs are often geometrics hooked with bold color choices.  His approach is straightforward and the overall pattern comes to life as he manipulates the colors. Occasionally he creates designs other than geometrics with equally colorful abandon.   The rugs are hooked with hand-dyed 100% wool and then they are finished by hand with materials selected to compliment each rug.

His rugs are featured at HANDMADE PAPERS in Brooklin, ME and his teaching schedule continues to grow.

Being recently retired from the US Postal Service, Ken concentrates on creating rugs, teaching rug hooking and living the good life in Brooklin with his dogs - Rosie and Jack.   ADOPT A PET!!!!  SPAY AND NEUTER!!!!

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Karen Porter

            Karen has been hooking rugs for 4 years and prior to that she quilted and sewed garments for over 18 years.  She has now dedicated all her talent to making hooked rugs and teaching classes.  Her rugs are primitive style and hooked on quality imported linen.  Karen is also a talented dyer of wool and the colors she achieves are spectacular.  Her rugs are finished with a whipped wool yarn and cording technique to protect the edges.

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Leah Wentworth

Leah and Basil, her husband of 48 years, live on their 200 year old family farmstead.  Through the years they lovingly restored the old cape house and she has inherited several antique hooked rugs.  Little did she know where this would lead! 

 After years enjoying many forms of arts and crafts she feels it was natural for her to try traditional rug hooking.  A dozen years and many rugs later, she has established herself in the Maine rug hooking community.  As Boghill Designs she creates numerous patterns for rug hooking and other forms of artwork.   Her style tends to be what she refers to as "refined primitive".  Through her use of textured woolens and beautiful over-dyed wools, she skillfully hooks rugs in the soft and mellow shades typical of the beautiful rugs of the past. 

Leah has given many rugs to her family over the years and she is currently working on a 7 1/2 by 9 foot bedrug and hopes to be finished soon.  Leah also has taught classes at Searsport Rug Hooking and in her home area.

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Linda McLaughlin

It was 6 years ago when she decided she needed a creative outlet and chanced upon rug hooking.  It filled the need to be creative and the end result looked wonderful in a room full of antiques - she was off and running!  From that small beginning, she has branched out to include dyeing her own wool to achieve the desired country colors, hooking rugs for family as well as for sale and designing new patterns (a few of which have come directly out of her early sketchbooks).  She has brought her artistic background into play with the country designs she offers for sale under the name Traditions (which was also the name of her antique businesS.