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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn the story of a determined dressmaker and her daughters and their precious Irish lace wedding jacket from 1881.
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.
Discover a hidden tradition at the newest exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It’s the latest destination in our A Place to Come To series, highlighting remarkable exhibitions and collections.