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Join us on a journey around the world to celebrate the makers keeping this ancient craft alive.
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One woman’s Scarlett O’Hara moment translates into a dream come true.
Join us on a journey around the world to celebrate the makers keeping this ancient craft alive.
Season 15, Episode 3: Exploring collections of early American cloth, Emily Whitted finds stories of creativity, virtue, and the intimate lives of people from many backgrounds.
AAA pair of handknit socks in the Whyte Museum's archives inspired this cabled pattern for your next adventure.
A trip to Santa Fe's International Folk Art Market reminds us how textiles and makers connect us across culture and continent.
The Center for Knit and Crochet is building a free, open-access digital museum where collections big and small, famous and personal, finally have a home.
A visit to a historic mansion in Maine revealed an unexpected collection of hooked rugs that inspired this dazzling rug-hooking project in PieceWork.
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A visual primer of common embroidery stitches.
Discover textile treasures from museums around the world in our Fall 2026 issue of PieceWork.
PieceWork contributor Katrina King shares her favorite source of inspiration for her knitting patterns.
Explore the history of this British bobbin lace with a pattern to try yourself, plus a bonus deep dive into a Bucks Point lace edging.
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Open our cabinet of wonders to uncover textile stories, needlework collections, and projects inspired by these treasures.
What do we do with needlework heirlooms that we cannot let go?
Tattooing and textile arts have long evolved side by side—a connection that resurfaces today in embroidery-style tattooing.
In The Atlas of World Embroidery, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood guides readers through a remarkable survey of global stitching traditions, revealing the techniques, motifs, and histories that have shaped embroidery around the world.
Stitch and sew a charming embroidered-ticking bag based on an 1863 pattern.
Drawing from knitting, beadwork, embroidery, and sashiko traditions, our new PieceWork eBook invites you to explore the creative possibilities stitched into every shade of blue.
A new exhibition at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum gathers early American needlework to show how girls used needle and thread to record their worlds, often in ways history has only just begun to recognize.
These reader-submitted needlework projects show us that while a pattern begins on the page, it becomes something truly special when you make it your own.
Our fascination with blue and white spans cultures, generations, and craft traditions. Explore this classic color pairing in our new Summer 2026 issue.
Drawn to the damaged and dismissed, one collector uncovers the stories stitched within these less-than-perfect antique samplers and shares a pattern for you to stitch yourself.
Learn the story of a determined dressmaker and her daughters and their precious Irish lace wedding jacket from 1881.
From the Baltics to Britain, learn how nineteenth-century knitters transformed simple wrist warmers and sleeves into dazzling garments with hundreds of tiny glass beads —and get the pattern to knit your own!
From intricate handmade designs to modern textile art, International Lace Day 2026 celebrates the skill, creativity, and cultural heritage of lace makers around the world.
Season 14, Episode 5: Best known for his work with peanuts, renowned agricultural scientist George Washington Carver had a lifelong passion for needlework. Park Ranger Curtis Gregory shares stories about Carver’s interests in handwork and natural dyeing.
A new exhibition reveals how Japanese makers extended the life of indigo textiles through the art of piecing and mending.
Founded on the idea that art lives in daily life, the Mingei Museum honors the creativity of ordinary makers.
Discover the crochet lace of Orvieto, Italy, a fragile inheritance of skill, memory, and place, preserved against the pull of time.
Honoring the women who built the historic lace industry in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and connecting today’s makers with this nearly lost craft.
Season 13, Episode 9: Ethereal, durable, ornamental, powerful—what does lace mean to you? Through academic study and the work of her hands, Elena Kanagy-Loux teaches that lace is all of these things and more.
Explore needlework collections in museums around the world.
PieceWork explores historic needlework and textile traditions through researched stories, maker histories, and projects in knitting, embroidery, lace, weaving, and related handwork.