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On the Cover:
Linen tablecloth with a spray of roses embroidered with silk threads. From the
Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
Colorado.
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Contents
Embroider a Rose-Petal Heart
Linda Moore selected a single heart-shaped rose petal from a linen tablecloth
and embroidered it on silk for a box-top insert.
The Rose Tablecloth
This elaborately embroidered tablecloth from the Historic Costume and Textiles
Collection of Colorado State University inspired the embroidery project presented
on page 26.
by Linda Carlso
The Fisher Man’s Lover
This poem was inspired by a photograph of a woman standing and knitting beside
a cliff in Polperro, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
by Jane Galer
Knit Our Polperro Gloves
Nancy Bush, moved by Jane Galer’s poem, designed these patterned gloves
to knit for men.
More Love Than Money: Gifts of the 1930s
During the Depression, many women exchanged gifts of textiles that they had worked
with needle and thread.
by Jane Reid
Embroider a Tea Towel
Mary Polityka Bush brings us this 1930s-style tea towel just in time for Valentine’s
Day.
Stitch a Blackwork Heart
From the Embroiderers’ Guild of America’s extensive needlework collection
comes this blackwork heart motif to stitch.
What Is Blackwork?
Centuries old, blackwork consists of intricate patterns worked with a series of
straight stitches and backstitches.
by Ann Blalock
Korsnäs Sweaters: Crocheted and Knitted Gifts
of Love
Young women from the small Finnish village of Korsnäs crocheted and knitted
intricate sweaters for their fiancés.
by Carol Huebscher Rhoades
Crochet a Bag with Korsnäs Motifs
Carol Huebscher Rhoades crocheted this Korsnäs
bag with the traditional dancing girl motif.
The Shawls of Cuenca
Love story: a poet, an actress, and a warp-resist-dyed and fringed shawl made
in Ecuador.
by Deborah Dwyer
Needlework and Love
Anniversary Doily
by Diane Willett
Raggedy Ann
by Polly Havins
Function Plus Fashion: Victorian Smoking Caps
During the mid-nineteenth century, men wore ornately embroidered velvet caps while
smoking in the privacy of their rooms.
by Diane Maglio
Bead a Tudor Rose on a Velvet Hat
Sandie Abel dresses up a velvet hat with a late- fifteenth-century motif, the
Tudor rose.
Make a Purse in Tunisian Crochet
Kathleen Power Johnson utilizes the technique of Tunisian crochet in this richly
textured purse.
The Riddle of Tunisian Crochet
Although examples of Tunisian crochet have been documented as early as the mid-nineteenth
century, the origin of the technique is still disputed.
by Elizabeth Kurr
Stitch a Miniature Victorian Spot Sampler
Page Dorsey continues the tradition of Victorian spot samplers with fifteen separate
motifs to stitch. |
