About

Owner, Artist, Teacher

Pam Bartlett is a juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen and first began rug hooking in 1982 with noted instructor, the late, Hallie Hall of Contoocook, NH. Pam is a certified rug hooking teacher with the Pearl K. McGown Rug Hooking Guild, and has completed the teacher training program with the Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia. Pam is a four times recipient of the Master Artist/Apprenticeship grant thru the NH State Council on Arts Traditional Arts Program, part of the National Endowment for the Arts .

Pam has been teaching regular rug hooking for over twenty-five years, first at her home studio, then at rug schools and workshops in the U.S. and Canada. In September 2014, Pam moved her studio to a store front near her home in Loudon, NH and opened “The Woolen Pear” & Red Horse Rug Designs, where she sells her own and other designers rug hooking patterns, wool, along with other rug hooking supplies and goodies. Pam also sponsors guest instructor workshops and hosts the Annual Star Island Rug Hooking Retreat on the Isles of Shoals, Portsmouth, NH.

Pam’s work has been exhibited at Gallery 205, League of NH Craftsmen in Concord, NH, Green Mt. Rug Hooking Guild Annual Exhibit at the Shelburne Museum, VT, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, the American Independence Museum, Exeter, NH, and the University of NH Law School hooked rug exhibit. Her hooked piece “Clew Bay, Co., Claire, Ireland” was a finalist at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana. Pam believes it is important to preserve as many of the traditional arts, crafts and skills that were so vital to the comfort and necessity in the everyday life of previous generation. She enjoys sharing her love of rug hooking and its history by demonstrating at various venues such as Canterbury Shaker Village, Strawberry Bank Museum, and the Sunapee Craftsmen’s Fair.

The Woolen Pear

The Woolen Pear, a unique fiber arts studio specializing in hand hooked rugs, supplies, classes and workshops for rug hooking, braiding and fiber arts. With the largest selection of off-the-bolt and hand-dyed wool in the area, you will find hand-spun alpaca yarns, recycled sari ribbons and silk fibers for adding that creative touch to your fiber craft.

The Woolen Pear also carries Pro-Chem and Cushing dyes and are the exclusive representative for The Wooley Mason Dye Jar system in the U.S. and many instructional and reference books for dyeing wool and rug hooking. We have everything the "happy hooker" needs including many popular designer and custom designed patterns for the creative hooker in you. Our Red Horse Rugs can design that one of a kind rug pattern for you to create your own future heirloom or we can design and hook a finished hooked piece of art for you. Stop in for a visit today and maybe we'll make you a hooker too! It's never to late to start!