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.
Gary Parks offers helpful suggestions for expanding your research on needlework samplers.
A mother’s stitched samplers provided comfort and inspiration during the pandemic.
A counted-thread sampler staple—it’s hip to stitch square!
The Spring 2021 issue of PieceWork sets out across the globe, illuminating the stores of needleworkers from the past.
The following is an excerpt from the November 1929 issue of Needlecraft —The Magazine of Home Arts' full-page article on samplers.
Buttonhole samplers don’t contain the elegant scenes, alphabets, and pious poetry, but a young woman preparing for a job as a domestic servant or seamstress could use a buttonhole sampler to demonstrate her sewing abilities.
Help us uncover the untold stories behind the makers of the past in the Spring 2021 issue of PieceWork.
The Scottish samplers in an exhibition at the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh are part of the Lesley B. Durst collection.
Knit Ava Colman’s lace bookmark, which uses a variety of knitted lace stitches and makes a quick gift. She designed the bookmark as a knitted lace-stitch sampler composed of stitches from various works by Anna Marie Jensen.
The Fall 2019 issue of PieceWork is just packed with stories and projects that particularly intrigue me.
With the fall leaves as my visual inspiration, I chose a page from Weldon’s Practical Needlework that introduces Mountmellick embroidery and shows 20 ways to embroider leaves.