Anna Anderson began her tablecloth on her journey from Norway to the United States. “My mother gave me the tablecloth when I was leaving and told me that when I was feeling lonesome I should work on it,” she recalled.
For many years, Muscatine, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, was the Pearl-Button Capital of the World.
Scientific research now validates what die-hard knitters have long known in their hearts: the power to manage stress, to control well-being, and to recover from certain physical injuries often lies in one’s own hands.
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In this first part of a three-part series, the author looks at the first concept—how and where girls learned their sewing skills—that is examined in an upcoming exhibition at the DAR Museum in Washington, DC.
In a market, Chitra chanced upon a little bag from Afghanistan, which led her to research its tribal origins.
