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On the Cover:
A miniature needlepoint
carpet in progress.
Photograph by Joe Coca
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Grandmother Pfister's Yarn Dolls
by Jacqueline Davidson
Photograph by Joe Coca
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Queen Mary's Dolls' House
Completed in l924 as a gift for Queen Mary of England (l867-l953),
this house, now on display at Windsor Castle, features l/l2-scale
needlework rugs, furniture, and linens, as well as hundreds of fully
functional miniatures.
Deborah Pulliam
Samplers from Mistress Sarah Stivours School,
Salem, Massachusetts
One of the most notable and stylistically similar group of samplers
from the late eighteenth century is attributed to students from
the Sarah Stivours School.
Paula Bradstreet Richter
Clothing for Babes in Arms: Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth- Century Childbed Linen
Even though styles for children's clothing underwent many changes
during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pride women
displayed in making and embellishing their infants'
clothing remained constant.
Jean Daly Randazzo
Especially for the Baby: Amana Star-Pattern
Knitted Bonnets
Knitting elaborate star-pattern bonnets for babies provided an acceptable
outlet for artistic
expression in the utilitarian Amana society.
Susan Strawn Bailey
Phulkari and Bagh, Labor of Love
Worn as shawls or head coverings, these embroidered textiles are
often made for children in India from the time of birth and retain
ceremonial significance throughout their lives.
Brinda Gill
Teaching Embroidery to Children
Nineteenth-century samplers remind us that embroidery was once widely
taught in schools as a vocation. Now embroidery is gaining acceptance
as an art form, but only renewed efforts to teach needlework to
children can ensure its survival.
Barbara Alexander Herring
Things
to Make
A Miniature Oriental Carpet
to Needlepoint
Stitch this colorful Kazak carpet for your favorite collector of
miniatures. Design adapted from Oriental Carpets in Miniature. Frank
M. Cooper
A Lamb Purse to Stitch
Mary had a little lamb to stitch! This purse, designed by Salley
Mavor and based on her illustrations for Mary Had a Little Lamb,
is a fun project for children learning to sew and embroider.
A Hollie-Point Medallion to Stitch for Baby
Embellish
a piece of infant clothing with this hollie-point medallion, created
by working a variation of the buttonhole stitch in rows with skipped
stitches. Medallion designed and stitched by Mary Polityka Bush
Amana Star-Pattern Baby Bonnet to Knit
This
wool baby bonnet, designed and knitted by Susan Strawn Bailey, was
adapted from a bonnet in the collection of the Amana Heritage Society,
Amana, Iowa.
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