Jo Ellen Designs

About the Artist

Jo Ellen Designs is a home goods design studio that creates unique hand-hooked wool rugs, pillows and handbags for wholesale and retail. Principal designer Jo Ellen Stammen is a former fine artist and children''s book illustrator. Her training and success -- over 13 published titles, including a Caldecott nomination and Christopher Award -- are evident in the distinctive sensibility of her pieces. Natural beauty and tranquility are drawn into the forms and figures of the heirloom rugs and pillows she designs.