Founded on the idea that art lives in daily life, the Mingei Museum honors the creativity of ordinary makers.
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A trinity stitch pattern from the late 1800s finds new life in this modern-day cowl design.
Discover Mark Twain's contributions not only to the literary world, but also to fashion history.
From cotton fields to sewing rooms, learn how enslaved women contributed significantly to the development of early American quilts.
In 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.
Annichen Sibbern Bøhn: traveled Norway to record endangered knitting patterns—and later risked her life in the resistance. Discover her story and download a free sock pattern inspired by her work.
The Japanese American Quilt Project brings together generations of voices, identity, and resilience. Learn the story of a community’s shared past through fabric and thread.
As athletes sneak in a few calming rows between events in Milan, Italy, fans at home are knitting right along with them turning the Winter Games into a shared stitch by stitch ritual.
Check out some of our favorite offerings of Chinese needlework to celebrate the Year of the Horse.
Blending historical research with masterful needlework, the America’s Tapestry project translates Revolutionary-era stories into vivid embroidered panels.