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Arms of the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers. The Worshipful Company of Needlemakers is one of the livery companies of the City of London.The Needlemakers were given letters patent by Oliver Cromwell in 1656, and received a royal charter in 1664.
In 2004, UNITE announced that it would merge with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) to form UNITE HERE.In 2009 most of the apparel and laundry workers in UNITE HERE broke away to form a separate union known as Workers United, which affiliated with the Service Employees International Union.
Traditional Nakshi Kantha of Bangladesh Embroidery sampler by Alice Maywood, 1826 Laid threads, a surface technique in wool on linen.The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century ...
The oldest surviving European samplers were made in the 16th and 17th centuries. As there were few pre-printed patterns available for needleworkers, a stitched model was needed. Whenever a needleworker saw a new and interesting example of a stitching pattern, they would quickly sew a small sample of it onto a piece of cloth – their 'sampler ...
National Giving Alliance, formerly Needlework Guild of Philadelphia, Needlework Guild of America, and NGA, Inc., is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides clothing and other essential living items (all of which are purchased by or donated to the organization new) along with other charitable services to children and families in need in the United States, including unhoused ...
Screen embroidered in the art needlework style, 1885-1910, designed by John Henry Dearle, V&A Museum no. CIRC.848-1956.. Art needlework was a type of surface embroidery popular in the later nineteenth century under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
CINOA (Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d'Art, or International Confederation of Art and Antique Dealers' Associations) is a Brussels-based international federation of antique and art dealers. It was founded in 1935 and represents five thousand dealers from thirty-two art and antique associations in twenty-two countries.
Millers Falls Company in 1910. Millers Falls Co. is a tool manufacturing company originally based in Millers Falls, Massachusetts. It was established in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1868 as Gunn & Amidon [1] by Levi J. Gunn and Charles H. Amidon. [2]