Amelia MacDougall Fleming makes contemporary hand-hooked rugs using traditional techniques from her home in the Canadian Maritimes. Her rugs are made from fibers imbued with human and animal history like wool and worn farming clothes, connecting the work to histories of domestic labor and rural tradition. Historically, hooked rugs softened the threshold between home and wilderness by blocking drafts near a door. In her practice, she extends that gesture beyond the threshold of the door, softening the boundaries between humans and animals, the domestic and feral, and narrative and material worlds.

Amelia’s rug hooking studio, Coppice Tree Hooking, is located in Rockland.