Needlework is imbued with narratives that might range from the everyday to larger than life, and sometimes there are a few loose ends that leave us guessing. Do you have a great story to share?
A series of three knitted panels, using embroidery for details, are fiber windows onto landscapes important to the author and her family.
Niebling’s designs are not for the faint of heart or the impatient knitter. Some of his larger table covers contain as many as 300 rounds, with the outer rounds comprising hundreds of stitches, all to be worked in fine thread from pages of complex charts.
Though varied in style and material, the fichu was an important fashion accessory during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Thimbles are highly prized by collectors and stitchers alike and loved for their practicality, beauty, and infinite variety.
The French named this soft and fluffy yarn and fabric and are believed to have invented it, as well, sometime during the eighteenth century.
What did it mean to be a member of a knitting guild during the 1500s? Who was responsible for crafting Eleonora di Toledo’s burial stockings?