Needlework
Unless you are an aficionado of lace knitting, you probably haven’t heard of Orenburg, Russia. Located on the steppes of the Ural Mountain range, it’s a long…
NEEDLEWORK TRENDS
On November 4, 1922, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, British archaeologist Howard Carter found steps that he believed will lead to the tomb of King Tutankhamun.…
At an antique show some years ago, my daughter, Nancy Cook, spotted the unique little knitted beret shown below and immediately bought it for my collection of…
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our 15th installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4. The following are…
Welcome to the Winter 2018 issue of PieceWork! It’s filled with information on two of my favorite things—magazines and books. That each feature and project includes the…
The knitted stockings shown below were featured in Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 15, published in London in 1900. They were designed to come above the knee, but…
Have you ever wondered what the women in Victorian England knit the most? The amount of attention given in Weldon’s Practical Needlework to knitting stockings gives us…
Some years ago, I wrote about the set of brightly colored crocheted pot holders that I discovered in a hope chest among the otherwise exquisite needlework made…
I am totally into all things Victorian, creepy, and dark. I would call that a confession if it wasn’t blatantly obvious to anybody who gets to know…
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our fourteenth installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4. The following are…
Over the years, we have had a variety of PieceWork contests for our readers to showcase their stellar needlework skills. The inaugural contest featuring pincushions was among…
The herringbone stitch belongs to the large cross-stitch family and has many aliases—Mossoul, Russian, Russian cross, catch, Persian, witch, fishnet, and plaited stitch. The most commonly used…
The minimal materials needed to learn embroidery create stitches from simple to complex. PieceWork celebrates embroidery in all of its many forms. Here are three books we…
A sixteenth-century child’s mitten now in the collection of the Museum of London and shown in my article “A Child’s Mitten from Sixteenth-Century London,” which was featured…
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our thirteenth installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4. The following are…
At the station in Ollantaytambo, vendors await the arrival of the next train bearing tourists to the famed Inca site of Machu Picchu. Draped in the colorful…
Textiles from around the world continue to inspire and fascinate. PieceWork celebrates historical needlework in all of its many forms. Here are three books we recommend on…
In Maine and Nova Scotia, there really is a tradition of knitting shrinking Fishermen’s mittens and Compass mittens such as Josy’s (read about eleven-year-old stern man Josy…
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our twelfth installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4. The following are…
Wondering what it might be like to bandy about creative ideas for Halloween in an editorial environment that is heavily focused on yarn? Trust us, we eventually…
Queen of modern folk embroidery, Nancy Nicholson has created a brand new collection of hand-embroidery designs for her new book, Big Embroidery. Inspired by crewel embroidery, which…