Stitching monograms onto household linens and clothing is a timeless way to personalize your life. It is no surprise: monograms are seeing a resurgence.
Throughout time, needleworkers have become smitten with lace, and Kathi Rotella’s Victorian lace square is a good example. She was so taken by a sample that she re-created it for PieceWork.
Meet a group of college students who are making a difference by striving to mend the gaps in clothing sustainability—both literally and figuratively.
Early British steel crochet hooks were manufactured from steel wire using the same methods and in the same workshops as sewing needles.
Although the Masonic brotherhood developed its own rituals and rules, it retained in its symbolism the trappings of the stonemason’s craft, including the apron.
The instructions for this delicate lace edging originally appeared in a weekly household column, which ran in a Manchester, New Hampshire, newspaper from 1881 to 1884.
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A member of the cross stitch family, the rice stitch is not to be confused with another type of stitching.
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Sheena Pennell explores the role portrait artists played in public relations during the years that the House of Medici reigned in Florence.