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ArticleThreads That Unite Us: Reflections from IFAMA trip to Santa Fe's International Folk Art Market reminds us how textiles and makers connect us across culture and continent.
ArticleLong Thread Podcast: Jordana Munk Martin, TatterSeason 13, Episode 5: Brooklyn-based and globally focused, Tatter preserves the personal and cultural stories in cloth.

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ArticleAmerican Girlhood: Needlework, Memory, and the Making of a NationA new exhibition at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum gathers early American needlework to show how girls used needle and thread to record their worlds, often in ways history has only just begun to recognize.

ArticleA Stitch in Time: Pekinese and Chinese Knot StitchesThere is confusion in the embroidery literature between these two similarly named stitches. Deanna helps explain the differences.

ArticleHow to Display (Most) Textiles Without Damage, Part 2Mounting and framing heirloom embroidery, cross-stitch, and other small textiles safely takes a little work, but the results are more than worth it.

ArticleLawful & MaterialHannah Powell’s Embroidery of a Petition Against an Indian Execution

ArticleA Handstitched Collection of Mid-Century Handkerchiefs and PillowcasesMid-century homemakers decorated their household linens and handkerchiefs with embroidery, crochet, tatting, hairpin lace, and more—a discreet way to show off their needlework skills.

ArticleThreads of HistoryPreserving Historic Embroidery at Woodlawn

ArticleThe Sampler of Maria Louisa BethausenThe tale of a remarkable girlhood embroidery and its maker.

ArticleCheering Daily Life with Depression LaceDespite its popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, Depression Lace today is generally categorized—and often dismissed—as folk embroidery.

ArticleIt’s International Museum Day: Learn How Museums Are Uniting a Divided WorldFrom delicate embroidery and handwoven cloth to treasured artifacts, museums preserve the stories that connect us. Help us celebrate these important institutions and the people who keep history alive.

ArticleHome Arts—Needlecraft Magazine’s Monograms to CrochetStitching monograms onto household linens and clothing is a timeless way to personalize your life. It is no surprise: monograms are seeing a resurgence.

ArticlePieceWork Summer 2022: Embellish!Learn how the love of adornment inspired our summer Embellishment issue!

ArticleThe Glamour of It All: Collecting Vintage HandbagsBefore 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.

ArticleColcha: The Embroidered Stories of San LuisLearn about the history and tradition of this Spanish Colonial style needlework and see how contemporary embroiderers keep the traditions and stories alive.

ArticleThe Eleonora Project, Part 4: The Lifecycle of Women’s ClothingClothing in the Eleonora di Toledo’s time was expensive. As a result, garments were worn for many years, then they were handed down, cut down, or repurposed.

ArticleRemnants to RememberPeek inside the contents of hundreds of suitcases found in the Willard Asylum, revealing remnants of the lives left behind.

ArticleThe Embroidered Huipiles of Mexico’s Isthmus of TehuantepecThe huipil has varied slightly over time, being wider and looser during certain periods and shorter and tighter in others, but always made from a rectangle folded in half with the neck cut out and the sides stitched together to the armholes.

ArticleA Stitch in Time: Two-Sided Italian Cross-StitchThe two-sided Italian cross-stitch is a square, densely textured stitch and is another member of the large cross-stitch family.

ArticleLong Thread Podcast: Leslie Rinchen-WongmoSeason 5, Episode 5: While living in Dharamshala, India, and volunteering for the Tibetan Central Administration, Leslie walked into a workshop and fell in love with a rare practice of pieced, stitched fiber art, the thangka.

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