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On the Cover:
A cross-stitch cipher designed and stitched by Judie Lalanne.
Antique needlework accessories courtesy of Loene McIntyre, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Photograph by Joe Coca.
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Earliest Threadwork
Nontextiles such as statuary, pottery, and literature
provide evidence of early threadworkers long after the textiles they created have
disappeared.
Dolores B. Bausum
An Elne of Lynnyn Cloth for a Samplar
A Sampler Timeline
Trace the history of needlework samplers, starting with remnants left by third-century
Egyptian needleworkers who provided customers with samples of custom embroidery
patterns and continuing to recent sampler research projects and needlework auctions.
Eileen J. Bennett
The Wedding Dress Quilt
From l9l0 to l989, brides from four generations of the same family
marched to the altar in the same handmade wedding dress. Too fragile to be worn
again, the dress has been replicated. Now a photographic quilt captures the history
of the family and the original dress.
Reynola Pakusich
Women’s Work, Women’s Rights:
Needlework from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of l904
Exposition organizers’ insistence that women’s work be treated equally
to that of men had profound effects on the ways in which handwork was displayed,
recognized, and recorded for posterity.
Jackie Chambers
Some Arizona Outlaws and Their Knitting
Prisoners produced delicate knitted lace while serving out their sentences in
the Yuma Territorial Prison at the turn of the twentieth century.
Nancy Nehring and Mary Seubold Cahill
Things to Make
A Cipher to Cross-Stitch
Needleworkers in Elizabethan England often combined letters and symbols to create
emblems, or ciphers, to mark their work. Judie Lalanne presents a cross-stitch
alphabet for creating a personal cipher.
Yuma Lace Edging to Knit
Pat Shannon re-created this pattern from knitted lace in the collection of the
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park in Arizona.
Ann Scott’s Lace to Crochet
A crochet swatch featuring a distinctive row of raised shells running across the
center of each motif inspired the edging on this linen doily adapted and crocheted
by Maggie Petsch. A filet crochet rose appliquéd to the
center of the doily adds a finishing touch.
Letter from Deanna Hall West
A Stitch in Time
The Tête de Bœuf Stitch
Deanna Hall West
Scottish Sampler
Parts One and Two
Stitch this classic Scottish sampler featuring a genealogical record and fanciful,
stylized plants based on an 1810 sampler by Rachel Reid. Design adapted by
Donna Yuen and stitched by Shirley Wilson.
A Pillow with Teneriffe Lace Motifs to Stitch
Decorated with delicate Teneriffe lace, this pillow, designed and stitched by
Betty M. Scott, provides an attractive surface on which to display a collection
of pins and brooches.
CATS Scissors Fob
Dimensional embroidery and beaded embellishments combine to make this decorative
scissors fob, part of an ongoing series of projects designed by the board members
of the Creative Arts and Textiles Show (CATS).
Designed and stitched by Liz Turner Diehl.
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