Peek into the past and learn from samplers in the Summer 2025 issue.

Virginia Woods Bellamy discarded traditional knitting measurements for geometrical principles.

Season 11, Episode 9: After five years of the Long Thread Podcast, we look back at this delightful conversation with a legendary needle artist.

Peel back the layers of recycled sarees to uncover the history of ledra quilts in India. Find out how the handstitched motifs rejuvenate reused textiles into striking works of needle art.

Tracing the threads of American needlework, stitch by stitch

The tiny wonders of the Eloise Kruger Collection

The Tudor rose is a hybrid of the floral heraldic badges of two feuding branches of the royal Plantagenet dynasty, the Yorks and the Lancasters.

Keep your hands warm as the seasons turn from winter to spring with a crochet project.

A circular form of Spanish lace first appeared in sixteenth-century paintings, but this style of lace soon radiated out, and variations can be found far and wide.

Nancie M. Wiseman shares her adaptation of a pair of knitted booties from a booklet that once belonged to Flora Campbell Chandler (1884–1965).