Mabel Herbert Urner: Collecting Needlework in Fiction and in Fact
No article about Mabel Urner as a writer was complete without a reference to her passion for collecting needlework samplers and textiles.
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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
Join us as we celebrate the historic needlework created to adorn and enliven daily life. Send PieceWork your article and project proposals for the Summer 2022 issue.
Even after the fall of the Taliban, as Afghanistan has remained in turmoil, Afghan women have continued to knit to earn money to support their families.
A mother’s stitched samplers provided comfort and inspiration during the pandemic.
During the nineteenth century, illustrated floral dictionaries, descriptive lithographs, and entire books devoted to flowers appeared across Europe and in the United States.
Two counterpane squares from Weldon's Practical Needlework were the beginning of a year-long knitting journey.
Timeless, practical, and versatile, aprons transcend culture and fads.
From Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 10, Twenty-eighth Series, we offer a charming citrus-shaped pincushion perfect for holiday giving. The instructions are presented here as they were originally published during the nineteenth century.
When Dawn bought her first antique friend in need book, she was attracted to its sweet, sewing-themed pockets, which are finished with braid trim on the pocket flap edges and labeled for the various contents held inside.
Mary Nicolaides shares the story of her family's connection to tatting and the handmade shuttles made by her grandfather for her grandmother.
The following is an excerpt from the November 1929 issue of Needlecraft —The Magazine of Home Arts' full-page article on samplers.