To many people, togas are synonymous with ancient Greece. The only problem? Togas aren’t Greek.
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These instructions are based on the information in Barbara Foster’s Learn Needle Tatting, Step by Step (Paxton, Illinois: Handy Hands, 1998), which provides complete step-by-step needle-tatting instructions accompanied by plentiful photographs.
It was during the Great Famine (1845–1849) that women, through their artistic and delicate hands, created the singular craft of Clones lace.
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This design is entirely worked in long-arm cross-stitch, the most common stitch found in the extant traditional embroideries of Iceland.
The butterfly is a popular motif, always; and probably it has never been used to better advantage than in the decoration of the centerpiece illustrated.
In their ceaseless quest for novelty, the fashion merchants of eighteenth-century Paris had been raiding the globe.
Re-creating a Bjärbo sweater was a knitting challenge. But for Mimi Seyferth, it was also a way to honor Rita Riffolt Varney and her pride in her Swedish heritage.
Virginia Woods Bellamy described Number Knitting as “merely a method of knitting design, based on squares and triangles and their tributary units.” She discarded traditional measurements for geometrical principles.
Submit your proposals for the Winter 2020 issue of PieceWork and see where your needlework explorations take you.
Peel back the layers of needlework history and uncover more about historical textiles from around the globe in the Spring 2020 issue of PieceWork.