What I Want to Learn in the New Year
Wondering what we're up to in our free time? See what the PieceWork staff wants to learn in the new year!
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Wondering what we're up to in our free time? See what the PieceWork staff wants to learn in the new year!
Read about the enduring quality of this delicate art form.
Help us uncover the untold stories behind the makers of the past in the Spring 2021 issue of PieceWork.
If staying home gives you the blues, and you don’t know what to do, learn something new.
One of the articles in the May/June 1994 issue of PieceWork is Marni Harang’s “The Flowers of Flanders: Seventeenth-Century Flemish Bobbin Tape Lace.”
The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is hosting its first Fiber Fiesta.
Crochet has proven to be a perfect technique to mimic other forms of lace, including bobbin lace, filet, tatting, Venetian needle lace, and drawn thread work.
This week in history: William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway marry. Here’s the needlework connection to this date.
To make any type of lace, one has to make connections. It all comes down to this—connecting threads, connecting people, connecting the past to the present.
As a lover of textiles, I’m really intrigued at how Jane Austen uses some of the details of dress to paint a portrait of her characters.
Lace can be created in so many different ways, and it can produce so many different effects, from frilly girlishness to Victorian steampunk to simple drama.
