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Founded on the idea that art lives in daily life, the Mingei Museum honors the creativity of ordinary makers.
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Founded on the idea that art lives in daily life, the Mingei Museum honors the creativity of ordinary makers.
Early 20th-century sewing books reveal how home-taught domestic skills became technical classroom lessons.
A love of small things and needlework
Little is know about this elaborately embroidered tablecloth from the Historic Costume and Textiles Collection of Colorado State University.
Ever since a cocoon fell into an empress’s teacup, silk has fascinated fiber artists.
Thimbles are highly prized by collectors and stitchers alike and loved for their practicality, beauty, and infinite variety.
The French named this soft and fluffy yarn and fabric and are believed to have invented it, as well, sometime during the eighteenth century.
Before you begin a collection of your own, whether it be of handbags, lace, linens, quilts, or garments, Christen Brown suggest that you first research the periods and styles that interest you the most.
Learn about the University of Connecticut Historic Costume Collection and the efforts underway to organize, refine, and curate the collection.
No article about Mabel Urner as a writer was complete without a reference to her passion for collecting needlework samplers and textiles.
Dawn Cook Ronningen, Historian, Needleworker, and Needlework Tool Collector
Jill lovingly acts as caregiver for old paper sewing patterns.
The Anatomy of a Collection—a series of three short articles that will appear in PieceWork—brings to light items discovered in Jill's mother’s “stash of goodies,” as she called it.