Rug Artist & Teacher - Laura Webber Pierce

Welcome to my web-site!   I live in Petaluma, California in Sonoma County, 40 miles north of San Francisco. My mother lives here too, on the west side of town.  Emma has given me the lovely upstairs room for studio space and calls her home the House of 2 Studios!   Emma & I host an Open House & Hook-In once a year.

emmy bubblesCan you hook a bubble?   My 'Emmy' rug made it into Celebrations XVIII!
It's always an honour to have a rug selected for this publication.  I enjoyed showing 'Emmy' at Sauder Village Rug Show in August 2008, where I reconnected with many Rug Hooking friends;  Ginny Stimmel, the editor of Rug Hooking Magazine,  Susan Feller of Ruckman Mill Farm and TIGHR,  Gene Shepherd,  Jan Winter, and Arlene Schwen.   I met Donna Hrkman, Cindi Gay and Anita White who I've visited with over the internet. At the Preview I met Shirley Dillard whose beautiful 'Wolf' rug is in Celebration.  Barb Branch whose 'Shirley Temple paper dolls' won Sauder Village Viewer's Choice Award demonstrated Rug Hooking all day Saturday. I joined her for a couple of hours of hooking and talking together; a very pleasant 2 hours of my vacation!

I enjoy teaching and sharing the Art of Rug Hooking.  I teach classes on Wednesdays & Saturdays.  I'm available to teach a class or workshop per your request, at my place or yours;  contact me at (707) 762-2595 or Lwpierce@comcast.net

My patterns, hand-dyed wool, basic supplies, & services are available at my Studio; call for an appointment Tuesday through Saturday.  I also direct the  Little River Inn Rug Camp, a rug hookers' holiday on the Mendocino Coast!  Nancy Miller Quigley and Michele Micarelli are our teachers this year; join us November 1-6, 2009.    Now I am the new director of McGown Asilomar Rug School on the Monterey Coast; Capri Boyle Jones and LeAnn Rudolph are our teachers this coming February 14-19, 2010. Be our sweet Valentines and join us!