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We offer up a poem, “The Needle,” to delight and amuse you. Share it with your stitching group, guild, or on social media.
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We offer up a poem, “The Needle,” to delight and amuse you. Share it with your stitching group, guild, or on social media.
A Colorful Baptismal Dress from Norway
If you've admired the beaded dresses on Downton Abbey or Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, you're falling in love with tambour work too.
I was interested in the traditional beaded, embroidered, and sequined ceremonial tapestries called kalagas (a Sanskrit term for Indian wall hangings), and we had begun our tour of their manufacture by watching the sequin makers.
Corticelli advertisements claimed that perfection was the company’s only acceptable product. Susan Strawn unravels the history of the Corticelli brand of silk yarn.
Learn about these colorful and elaborate one-of-a-kind dolls and the women who create them.
Before you begin a collection of your own, whether it be of handbags, lace, linens, quilts, or garments, Christen Brown suggest that you first research the periods and styles that interest you the most.
Master tatter Georgia Seitz shares the beginning of her tatting journey.
In gratitude for our PieceWork community, we're sharing some of their lovely needlework from 2020.
This charming tam o’shanter from the January/February 2017 issue of PieceWork makes a special gift. The body is worked in a Fair Isle pattern, and the tam gets its distinctive shape when it is washed and blocked.
Notre-Dame shines as an example of early Gothic structure with its massive flying buttresses that offset the weight of the tall walls.
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 split stitch is one of the oldest and simplest of the basic embroidery stitches, visually resembling a small compact chain stitch, but with a much narrower and flatter appearance.