Bargello, which originated from a style of needlework found on pieces in Italy's medieval Bargello Palace, refers both to a method of embroidery (flat, vertical stitches that form geometric tiers) and ...

This slight debut compendium from Maillard brings together hundreds of cross-stitch patterns she collected from old manuals. The majority of the designs are for alphabets, since the patterns are ...

Combining Judaic scripture with needlework was not what New Bedford resident Alice Nussbaum had in mind 35 years ago when her then 5-year-old daughter brought home a class project. "All my life I was ...

A flock of birds come alive in the skilled hands of Fu Xianghong, a master of Su embroidery known for her flower-and-bird works (GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY) “Only when I take the needle out and touch ...

Alice Le Duc, of the prominent Hastings family, once wrote to a friend: "We embroidered dragons — a great many dragons and people seemed to like them and also flowers that had never bloomed anywhere, ...