Marsha Borden is a writer, needleworker, and textile artist based in Connecticut. She enjoys researching and writing about historical textile techniques, materials, and makers.
Plain sewers and fancy needleworkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Hairwork was a way of remembering friends and relatives in the Victorian era—and of expressing women’s role in the home.
Recognizable anywhere and a staple in a crocheter’s repertoire, what do we know about its name?
