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PieceWork Fall 2023 — PieceWork | PieceWork

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PieceWork · No. 1061

PieceWork Fall 2023

Celebrate 30 years of PieceWork with this special edition full of extravagant projects and rich historic textiles.

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Indexed from PieceWork Fall 2023, in page order.

Colonial metallic trimmingsp. 6
The Charlotte capelet and a time for dancingp. 12
The Vanderbilt pillowp. 17
Gilded age rose and poms in Blackworkp. 22
I will do something: Louisa May Alcott and her needleworkp. 29
Lerook: a Shetland topperp. 34
Nineteenth-Century folk embroidery from Viana do Castelo, Portugalp. 38
Roman fever and intertwined: a crimson insertionp. 44
Sara Hume, Kent State Museump. 53
A motif to tat for a greeting cardp. 56
Zari: opulent embroidery from Indiap. 58
Gold rush: a history of metallic yarnsp. 62
A Meiji mystery: identifying a piece of transnational embroideryp. 66
What’s in a name?p. 72