The following businesses now also carry Design in a Box-Frakturs. A visit to their shops or online stores is a mutually winning action… you’ll see great rughooking products, and we all enjoy the support. Mention you heard about the Box online at Ruckman Mill Farm.
Dorr Mill Store, Guild NH..800-846-3677. www.DorrMillStore.com see Susan Feller for list of patterns and ask about box
Green Mountain Hooked Rugs, Montpelier, VT 802-223-1333 www.GreenMountainHookedRugs.com Stephanie also sells our patterns
Crows on the Ledge, Chardon, OH 440-279-0610 www.CrowsontheLedge.com Donna Bennett
Woolley Fox, Ligonier, PA 724-238-3004 www.woolleyfox.com Barbara Carroll and the world of primitives await you
Cottage House Primitives, Lodi, WI 608-592-7474 www.cottagehouseprimitives.com Carol Naab
Wool Gatherers, E. Berlin, PA Carole Meyer
Online you can view an interview with Susan L. Feller conducted by Gene Shepherd with the topic FRAKTURS. What they are, who created the originals, where and how to interpret the motifs into decorative arts such as rughooking designs. See www.GeneShepherd.com and sign up for his InternetRugCamp, the video is available to members only.
Ruckman Mill Farm in December
VERY HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL, this year and next. Caught the morning light accenting our cedar tree laidened with the evening’s snowfall. December 7, wonder what is up for the coming weeks of winter here in West Virginia.
new book Elements and Principles of Design
Reviews are coming in for the book, including:
“Learning with each chapter”
“The variety of works included illustrate the subjects.”
“This should be required reading for teacher’s programs.”
Order yours today here on the site, and bring your copy to be autographed at a workshop or vending event, check out the calendar.
There is a free pattern included “Mountain Treeline”. On www.Artwools.com there will be a post where finished versions of this design are listed. Visit it over the months and send your interpretation to Susan at rugs2wv@yahoo.com
The Show Special at Eden Resort, Lancaster, PA during the ATHA Bi-Ennial October 20-22 will be $5 off for the DESIGN IN THE BOX-FRAKTURS. Susan’s workshop to create a folk art pattern has been artfully put into a custom designed box.
VISIT THE BOOTH AND MENTION THIS POST.
The 90 templates are on cardstock, easy to trace using the paper included, or your own notebook. History of this unique American art form developed in isolation by immigrants to PA and their descendants who migrated to the Shenadoah Valley, north to Ontario, and farther west is in the book accompanying the designs.
Hints on how to arrange a pleasing composition and colors to use for historical accuracy or contemporary decor.
Barbara Ebersol Star Flower by Susan L. Feller
The September/October 2011 issue of Rug Hooking Magazine includes a feature article by Susan L. Feller titled: Frakturs for Designing, Old Pennsylvania German artwork finds a new place.
Using the quirky work of Barbara Ebersol of Lancaster, PA, Susan leads readers through how to create a hooked design with elements and principles peculiar to Frakturs (illuminated manuscripts popular in mid 1700-1850′s by PA Germans and migrants).
Select the product Design in a Box from our shop and begin to create your own hooked pattern inspired by FRAKTURS.
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Friedrich Bandel fraktur as hooked mat
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Emanuel Wilkin’s fraktur art as hooked mat by Susan Feller
This is a hooked mat interpreting the fraktur art of Friederich Bandel active in the Shenadoah Valley between 1800-1820. Unique to Bandel was a thin squiggle line echoing the motif. Susan Feller attended a lecture by Jeffrey S. Evans at the Rockingham Museum in Dayton, VA which focused on the new research about Shenandoah Valley fraktur artists. This accompanied an exhibit of photos presenting the largest presentation of regional frakturs to date. The show is at the musem through the end of 2011.
The other mat interprets a strange pot and striped tulip drawn in 1847 by Emanuel Wilkins in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Both of these designs are available as hooked rug patterns from Ruckman Mill Farm. See our Shop under Fraktur Designs.
Count down to the 15th Sauder Village Rug Hooking Week. Retreat is filled with excited students and wonderful instructors from Canada and the States beginning on Monday, August 15.
WE PREMIERED THE Design in a Box….. autographed copies for sale.
The exhibit, vendors (us included) and small workshops opens on Wednesday August 17- Saturday August 20. Susan is teaching a Value workshop (full) and leading a Gallery Walk on Saturday morning… openings sign up when you get there.
Ruckman Mill Farm booth at Sauder Village 2010
Set of 5" square hooked mini mats
This image accompanies the profile in WVLiving Magazine Summer 2011 issue on Susan. Title of article is “Top 15 Tamarack Artists”… and celebrates Tamarack’s 15th Anniversary as a showcase/sales space for West Virginia artisans and craftspeople.
The four mini mats combine to create a sunflower. Each measures 5″ square and are suitable for mats under hot or cold drinks because they are made from 100% wool strips of fabric hooked through a cotton backing. Hand wash with warm water if they actually become soiled. The inventory includes a variety of sets or start a collection one trip at a time.
My Mountain State by Susan L. Feller
The summer exhibit in the David L. Dickinson Fine Arts Gallery is titled “Best of West Virginia”. This piece is representing the fiber arts and rughooking was selected for a Merit Award.
Show runs through August 13 with all works for sale. Visit www.tamarackwv.com for directions and hours.
TAMARACK is the showcase of West Virginia arts and crafts located conveniently on I64 and I77 in Beckley, WV. Your GPS will clearly announce the exit “Tamarack, the Best of West Virginia”.
Susan Feller packs an order of Boxes
The custom designed boxes arrived on May 12. They were made in the USA by Friends Box Co in Danvers, MA.
Our dining room became a warehouse overnight, and we began to assemble the contents.
Quickly the “shipping room” processed the pre-orders and within a week we were receiving reviews.
“Susan,
ABSOLUTELY STELLAR JOB….A+++++++++, beautiful presentation, templates are on great weight paper…every bit of it is just OUTSTANDING…EXCELLENT!!! I have to still spend some time mulling through every detail, but I think you’ve done just a wonderfully amazing job with this and I will definitely spread the word. Worth every bit of the $35!!!” Diane Daniels (Harvard, MA) May 24, 2011
See the description of this new product by visiting the store and search for Design in a Box.
We invite uploads of completed rugs in the comment section or by emailing the image to Susan at info@ruckmanmillfarm.com
