Lost and Found—Call for Submissions PieceWork Spring 2022
Help us rediscover the textile stories lost to time. Send PieceWork your article and project proposals for the Spring 2022 issue.
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Help us rediscover the textile stories lost to time. Send PieceWork your article and project proposals for the Spring 2022 issue.
During the nineteenth century, illustrated floral dictionaries, descriptive lithographs, and entire books devoted to flowers appeared across Europe and in the United States.
A counted-thread sampler staple—it’s hip to stitch square!
Stitch a special gift for your Valentine.
Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator, Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
The Spring 2021 issue of PieceWork sets out across the globe, illuminating the stores of needleworkers from the past.
A visual primer of common embroidery stitches.
Timeless, practical, and versatile, aprons transcend culture and fads.
Not only are needle books beautiful and functional, but their construction did not take a large amount of fabric or time.
Joan Sheridan shares her lifelong passion for textiles as a volunteer conservator at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
This embroidered dowry bag bridges the gap between the traditional and modern. The shape meets the demands of current trends, but the stitching pays tribute to the needlework of vintage dowry bags.
The origins of the simple, yet striking, bargello stitch remain clouded in mystery, but its popularity has spanned centuries.