Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller is the owner and artisan at Parris House Wool Works in Paris, Maine. It is a center for all things rug hooking, fiber art, and other art, crafting and heritage skills with a mission to perpetuate artisanship into the next century through teaching and public outreach.

Beth has taught workshops at the Squam Art Workshops in Holderness, NH, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine, Portfiber in Portland, Maine, Stitchery in Portsmouth, RI, the Beekman 1802 Mercantile in Sharon Springs, NY, in other regional venues, and in her studio in Paris, Maine. Her work was included in Making Magazine, and Rug Hooking Magazine. She is the author of Seasons at the Parris House: Heritage Skills for a Contemporary Life, for Down East Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, and is working on a second book entirely about rug hooking.

Parris House Wool Works has a line of originally designed, hand-hooked home decor items available through the Beekman 1802 Mercantile in Sharon Springs, NY, has a line of rug hooking kits available through Darn Good Yarn, was a wildcard finalist in the 2014 Martha Stewart American Made Awards, and is a member of Maine Made: America’s Best. Beth’s work has been on display in the Maine Made case at Bangor International Airport and at the Down East Magazine Summer Pop Up Shop in Rockport, Maine. Her work has also been featured on the Magnolia Network television show, Maine Cabin Masters, episode 704.

She enjoys gardening, chicken keeping, beekeeping, & soap making at her 200 year old historic Maine homestead, and hiking and the outdoors in her beloved New England.