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Showing 101–120 of 181 results for “Embroidery”

ArticleA Stitch in Time: The Velvet StitchThe velvet stitch, consisting of a cross-stitch and a loop, is a counted-thread stitch most often used in canvas work.
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Mary Polityka Bush

An Icelandic Endless Knot Design to Stitch

This design is entirely worked in long-arm cross-stitch, the most common stitch found in the extant traditional embroideries of Iceland.

ArticleAmerica’s Tapestry: An Embroidered Revolution Blending historical research with masterful needlework, the America’s Tapestry project translates Revolutionary-era stories into vivid embroidered panels.

ArticleStitching Stories: The Cultural Legacy of Hmong Story ClothsHow an estate sale purchase revealed a story sewn across continents.

ArticleFrom Our Readers’ Hands: A Showcase of Your Finished ProjectsThese reader-submitted needlework projects show us that while a pattern begins on the page, it becomes something truly special when you make it your own.

ArticleMapping America, One Stitch at a TimeIn the first decades after independence, American girls learned the contours of their country by stitching them. At boarding schools, girls transformed printed maps into vivid embroidered visions of a young and still-forming nation.

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.

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.

ArticleLong Thread Podcast: Jordana Munk Martin, TatterSeason 13, Episode 5: Brooklyn-based and globally focused, Tatter preserves the personal and cultural stories in cloth.

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.

ArticleThreads of Feeling: Textiles from The Foundling MuseumPreserved among the records of The Foundling Museum, site of the former London Foundling Hospital, is what is now recognized as the largest collection in Britain of everyday textiles from the eighteenth century.

ArticleThe Long Thread: Joan SheridanJoan Sheridan shares her lifelong passion for textiles as a volunteer conservator at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

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.

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.

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.

ArticleThe Push-Pull of Doilies: Revered, Reviled, and ReconceivedOnce thought of as only something a grandmother could love, doilies are experiencing a renaissance.

ArticleFor subscribersExplore the Evolution of Norwegian Embroidered HandcoveringsNorwegian needlework beauty to warm your hands and your heart.

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