Helen Albee and Marion Volk: Arts and Crafts Hooked Rugs of New Hampshire and Maine

Helen Albee and Marion Volk established totally separate and quite different Arts and Crafts rug-making enterprises in the rural countryside of New Hampshire and Maine. Though largely unknown today, Albee and Volk were well known in the Arts and Crafts community in the early 20th century. Articles about their rugs appeared in House Beautiful, Country Life in America, and Gustav Stickley’s The Craftsman magazine. One of Marion Volk’s rugs won a silver medal at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Examples of their rugs appear in the collections of the Yale Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the New Hampshire Historical Society, among others, and are shown in several full-color, full-page illustrations in the book.

Author: David Cathers is well-known to American Arts and Crafts scholars and collectors. He is the author of Furniture of the American Arts & Crafts Movement and Gustav Stickley.
(Softcover; 70 pages)