The Oxford Company

Welcome to The Oxford Company, home of The Oxford Punch Needle and The Oxford Rug Hooking School, located in Cornwall, Vermont. We have a large selection of rug yarns, patterns, and punch needle rug hooking supplies for sale.

Click here to see 2017 Schedule of Classes

Our 2018 Schedule of Classes will be posted at the end of October.

Punched Rug Contest

Meet Our Monthly Prize Winner!

Susette Wolfe from Newmanstown, Pennsylvania is our August winner. She titled her rug Happy Scrappy because it was made with her leftover scraps of wool fabric. Her rug is unusual because most of the rugs we see are made with yarn but she punched hers with fabric strips. The Oxford Punch Needle Handbook comes with directions for how to punch with strips and many people use them here and there to add texture and interest but it's rare to see a rug punched with strips alone.

Susette reports, "I've been making rugs for an upcoming craft show, and I finally got around to making one for myself! I wanted to use as much leftover scraps as possible. Mission accomplished with this rug! The only part that isn't scraps is the yellow background. I live near Rebecca Erb's Wool Studio so most of the wool in this rug was purchased there. I took a class from Louise Kulp, your Oxford Certified Instructor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She was great!"

Happy Scrappy Rug by Susette Wolfe
Happy Scrappy. Designed and punched by Susette Wolfe from Newmanstown, Pennsylvania. 24" x 34". Made with 1/4" wide strips of wool fabric and a #10 regular Oxford Punch Needle. Punched on cotton monk's cloth.

Detail from Happy Scrappy This close-up shows the lovely texture of Susette's fabric strips.

Susette Wolfe

See the other monthly winners and find out how to enter