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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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Join us on a journey around the world to celebrate the makers keeping this ancient craft alive.
A trip to Santa Fe's International Folk Art Market reminds us how textiles and makers connect us across culture and continent.
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.
In the first decades after independence, American girls learned the contours of their country by stitching them. At boarding schools, girls transformed printed maps into vivid embroidered visions of a young and still-forming nation.