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Special Event Videos

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A Rug to Honor Lincoln's Mother
with Christine Manges, Feb 21, 2026
 

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Holiday Show & Tell 2025
Dec 6 2025
 

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Jessie Kinsley's Braided Silk Tapestries
with Tom Guiler, PhD, Jan 24, 2026

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Customizing Rugs with Country Braid House
 Dec 20, 2025
 

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Magnificent Multistrands
with Christine Manges
Sept 20, 2025

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Harris Tweed:  Local to Global
with Dr. Susan Walcott
Oct 18, 2025

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Pentagonal Box or Basket, with Rose Robertson-Smith
Nov 22, 2025

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2025 Rug Challenge:  Braided Water 

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2025 Show & Tell
Slide Show
 

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What Does 112 lbs Have to Do with Me?  Cookie Washington on the global problem of Textile Waste
 

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Snowflake Quillies 
with Yvonne
Iten-Scott
Dec 21, 2024

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Creating an Art Journal of Rugs 
with Susan Feller
Jan 18, 2025

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Knit and Braided Rugs 
with Christine Manges
Mar 29, 2025

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Betsy Sturges:  My Mother's Rugs

May 18, 2024

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Stretching & Self-Care for Rug Braiders, with Sarah Pedlow
Sep 21, 2024

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Magnificent Bugs in Rugs 
 Yvonne Iten-Scott
Oct 20, 2024

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Mrs. Nutting's Rugs, with Mary Ragno, Ed.D.
Feb 17, 2024

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World of Miniatures with SherreDawn Miller
Apr 20, 2024

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Making Miniature Braided Rugs 
 Christine Manges
Apr 20, 2024

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Braids with Benefits, Part 1
Kris McDermet & Christine Manges
Oct 28, 2023

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Braids with Benefits, Part 2
Kris McDermet & Christine Manges
Oct 28, 2023

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Braided Wreath with Flowers
Peggyann Watts & Christine Manges
Nov 18, 2023

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Lisanne Miller
of W. Cushing Dyes & P is for Primitive
Feb 18, 2023

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Kathy Wright:  Rug Hooking Week at Sauder Village
Mar 18, 2023

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Maine Fiberarts with Executive Director Christine Macchi
Jun 17, 2023

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Life on the Road
with
Marjorie Corrow
Nov 19, 2022

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Snowflake Trivet Braid-Along
Dec 17, 2022

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Who's Eating My Wool? with Judy Fahnestock
Jan 21, 2023

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1999 Vermont Life:  Delsie Hoyt
Oct 29, 2022

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Nancy Young's 1993 Exhibit of Students' Rugs
Oct 29, 2022

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2014 Braided Fashion Show  
Oct 29, 2022

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Braid with Roving 
June 25, 2022

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Plan A Braided Rug 
September 24, 2022

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Beautiful Thing --
The Rugs of Jean Will 
Oct 29, 2022

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Pear, Egg, & Corn
February 26, 2022

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Terry Dorr of Dorr Mill Store
April 23, 2022

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Kelly Wright
Up Close with
Rug Punching
May 14, 2022

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Nancy Young
"My Life in Braiding"
Sept 18, 2021

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Peggyann Watts
& the Belfast Braids studio
Nov 20, 2021

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Leanne Sitler
of LC's Wool 'n Silk
Jan 22, 2022

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Donna McKeever

"Braiding, Selling, & all things related"

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April 24, 2021

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Helen Condon of
www.AdirondackRug
Braiding.com
May 29, 2021
 

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Braided Rug Repair with Pam Rowan
June 26, 2021

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Tool Time:  A Panel Review of the Tools for Rug Braiders

Jan 23, 2021

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A Review of Books and Booklets on Rug Braiding

Feb 27, 2021

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Sarah Jurta of

Country Braid House

Mar 27, 2021

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Lecture:  The History of Braided Rugs in America:  Peasant Craft to Art Form

Oct 24, 2020

Speaker:  Christine Manges

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Presentation of the Rugs = Food = Love Project Rugs
Nov 21, 2020
Speakers:  Kris McDermet, Christine Manges, &
Dianne Tobias

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Artist Retrospective

& Studio Space

Dec 5, 2020

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Speaker:  Kris McDermet

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