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Artisans
Artisans are listed in alphabetical order. If you'd like more information on an artisan, click on their name and you will be taken to their website if they have one.
The Fourteenth Annual Grand Lake Stream Folk Art Festival - Saturday & Sunday July 26 & 27, 2008. 50 nationally recognized folk artists & craftsmen showing traditional & contemporary folk art & crafts in a wide variety of mediums. Many demonstrating their talents. |
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A & M Chainsaw Sculptures
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Acrylics By Sue |
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Barbara Walch Pottery
Barbara Walch has been making handbuilt pottery since 1973. She is one of only a few American potters who work primarily with the pinch technique. Her handcrafted stoneware dinnerware is distinctive, unusual, and appealing. Barbara and her husband, Charlie Krause, are the proprietors of Fire Flower Garden at their home located just outside the village of Thorndike, in central Maine, where her studio has been since 1989. In addition to the working pottery studio, there are extensive cottage gardens, cutting beds and a roadside plant stand.
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Blueberry Bliss Premium Blueberry Products
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Burnham Shaker Products
Our Shaker boxes are made of hand-selected native Maine hardwoods. The procedure is still a handmade and precise process, much the same as the Shakers used 150 years ago. We’re proud to be keeping this wonderful craft alive. Our Shaker-influenced country furniture is made of solid Eastern White pine. All exposed painted surfaces (tops, fronts and sides) are knot-free. The finish is a wax over paint, giving the pieces a warm, country feel. Minor distressing and square-cut nails complete the effect of high-quality reproductions. We offer an extensive line of chimney and jelly cupboards, hutches, base cabinets and small tables, in a variety of sizes and configurations. We also welcome inquiries for custom variations of our current offerings. Because of the size and weight of our pieces, we find costs prohibitive for shipping. Our venue to our customers is face-to-face, either via visits to our shop or at one of several folk art / craft shows that we attend throughout the northeast. Please refer to the schedule for shows that we’ll be attending this year. Choose the piece you would like, in the color you want, and we can bring it to the next show in your area. Orders must be placed at least one month prior to a show for pickup. If you plan to visit our shop, it’s always a good idea to call ahead to confirm that we’ll be there and to get directions. We believe that our furniture will not only serve the buyer for a lifetime, but will be handed down to be the next generation’s antiques.
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Cabin
Pottery
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Cathy Shamel, Piecemaker
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Common Folk Herb Farm
All natural fruit, herb and spice teas from our organic herb
farm in the Lakes region. Eight caffeine free teas with edible
flowers create a visual "potpourri" in elegant glass jars.
Green teas, children's beverages and full line of seasonings,
soups, breads and holiday items. Custom blends and private
labeling program available.
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Crafts at Two Apple Farm |
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Crows Rise Farm
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D & E Metalworks Eda & Dave Bentinnen D & E Metalworks creates wind chimes, mobiles and sculpture for indoor and outdoor locations. |
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D J Herrick Woodworking |
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D M Designs |
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Damselfly Photography |
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Daylily Weaving & Dye Works
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Dragonfly Instruments
Thom has crafted a variety of acoustic stringed instruments
and guitars, both 6-string and 12-string models. Other handmade
instruments include: mandolin, banjo, acoustic bass, mountain
and hammer dulcimer. He combines exotic and local Maine woods
to produce a quality instrument with a distinctive warm, resonant
sound. Beautiful inlay designs adorn each instrument. |
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Fine Pine Designs
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Framed Gardens |
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Hawk |
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Heather Perry Fine Jewelry
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Home Spun and Spice We offer a wonderline line of products made with dried apples, oranges, bayleaves, cinnamon sticks, and dried botanicals all wonderfully scented with her custom blended long lasting quality essential oils. Be sure to check them out! Homespun and Spice is a small family business in Mechanic Falls, Me offering a wide variety of handmade crafts. We strive to keep our product line fresh and continually seek to develop new unique custom items with wonderful fragrances. We welcome new product ideas and take custom orders. |
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Hutton handwovens
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Hutton Studios
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Jones
Limited Handmade Clothing Janice Jones Bradford, ME
Handweaving and designing textiles for clothing
and the home has been the passion of Janice Jones since 1970.
Now, in a studio overlooking hayfields and woodlands in central
Maine, she designs, weaves, and finishes scarves, shawls,
clothing and accessories for the home.
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Knapp Photographic |
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Lions Paw Jewelry & Glass Art I love glass because its allows me to create a world inside a bead with depth, beauty, color and sparkle. I have the ability to make detailed flowers, give landscapes a 3D look, and make wearable sculptures. Glass is my favorite medium because it is challenging. It is dangerous and hard to control, but the depth, detail and beauty that can be achieved through lots of practice make it very rewarding.
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Loon Mountain Leatherworks
Loon Mountain Leatherworks was started in June two thousand and three by Barbara Waits and Paul Sawyer as a way to express their creativity in leather.
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Coleen Lynch |
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Maine Hooked Rugs
Traditional rug hooking as we know it today is an artform that many believe originated in New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Maine played an important role in this history. For instance, a tin peddler by the name of Edwards Sands Frost of Biddeford created the first commercial patterns for rug hooking in the late 1800's. Cushing dyes originated in the Foxcroft area about the same time and are still sold under that name to this day. The rugs and patterns offered here are all created by Maine artisans to celebrate the tradition. We offer an eclectic group of hooked items with each artist producing her/his own style and color choices. Most of these rugs are one-of-a-kind. The material is usually 100% wool and most are hand dyed by the artist hooked on quality backing material (linen) and finished by hand so your purchases will last for generations with proper care.
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Nestlewood Birds
Bird carvings, feather pins, carving kits and instructional books.
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New England Candle Mill
Hand poured 100% soy wax candles (16 oz. jars, 10 oz. jars, 6 oz. seamless tins). All natural votives, tart, firestarters and aroma bead air fresheners.
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Pottery
by Celia Our pottery is functional, food-safe, dishwasher-safe and microwaveable.
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Precious Metal Creations Fine Handmade One of a Kind Jewelry using Precious Metals and Gemstones
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Quoddy
Trail Moccasin
The Shorey family has been making moccasins for generations, beginning with Harry Smith Shorey, a handsewer for
L.L. Bean in the early 1900s. Today, we continue this fine
tradition with Quoddy Trail. In Downeast Maine, near the shore
of the Passamaquoddy Bay, we make traditional moccasin styles
using time-honored techniques and quality materials. Each
process is done by hand — cutting, skiving, stitching,
and handsewing.
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Rainmaker Soap As natural as the rain" - handcrafted herbal and floral fragranted soaps made with olive, coconut and vegetable oils, jojoba and quality essential and floral oils. |
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Rusty Tipton Designs |
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Salt Meadow Studio |
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Seacolors
& The Maine Blanket
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Shipyard Point Glass Works My lifelong enchantment with glass and a desire to be ever present on a daily basis for my family, has driven me to discover lampworking. Being mostly self-taught, learning has been much slower than if I had taken innumerable classes. The mistakes I have made along the way are so much more revealing than being taught everything flawlessly the first time. I am inclined to create pieces that are uncommon and organic in their appeal. Pieces that will inspire you to think, imagine and create!
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Spiralworks
This primitive technique of shrinking wool fiber to make garments and sculpture has captured my attention and passion! I have specialized in making woolen vessels for finer galleries and craft shows throughout the United States. You can finally see a pattern outlining my technique in Carol Cypher’s new book entitled “How We Felt” (Interweave Press). I am recently exploring the richness of felt to make functional handbags, sculptural hats, and bird forms, in addition to my signature vessels with coiled wire rimming!
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Stanchfield
Farms Creators of award winning pickles and fine
specialty foods. Stanchfield Farms is a real working farm
deep in the heart of Maine. Using the methods of yesteryear and the finest ingredients we make
everything in small batches to preserve the authentic flavor
of rural Maine.
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Susan Designs |
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Theo's Character Dolls Soft Sculpture
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Timberstone
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Todd Watts - Folk Artist Through my folk art creations I share my love of wildlife and old wood. I make sculptures, furniture, and decorative bird houses. My pieces integrate original hand carvings with reclaimed wooden architecture and old furniture parts. I am self-taught and have been working as an artist since 1996. I carve basswood that I purchase from small wood lot owners and sawyers, individually sculpting each piece using traditional hand carving techniques. Each piece is then hand painted.
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Topsail Canvas Carry your gear and personal items in a Topsail Canvas bag, handcrafted with the same quality workmanship, and commitment to the environment as Bryan Boatbuilding
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| Village Blacksmith Traditional Blacksmithing Sidney Hughes Lubec, ME |
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Wicked Good Baskets Quality ornamental and functional baskets, which are handcrafted with attention to detail. Each basket is made to order in a variety of shapes and sizes.
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James C. Wheeler |
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Wild
Ivy Designs This jewelry is one of a kind, comprised of found recycled papers, that I embellish with paint, beads and gold filled and sterling silver wire. My work includes: pins, earrings, barrettes and pendants.
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Works in Wood |
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Wrenovations Stained Glass Creations
We are able to create custom designs using your ideas or pictures, or you may select from artwork that we have already created. We offer a large selection of lamps, panels, windows, mirrors, jewelry, wall hangings, holiday, sun catchers and special occasion artwork from which to choose. Panels may be made to fit an exact location, decor, color and theme for your home or business. We use the copper foil technique because it allows the use of small pieces of stained glass, which results in greater detail in the finished artwork. If you are interested in a hand crafted work of art, stop by to see us at a local art and craft festival or at our studio in Robbinston, Maine. |
