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  2. Needlepoint - Wikipedia

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    Needlepoint is a type of canvas work, a form of embroidery in which yarn is stitched through a stiff open weave canvas. Traditionally needlepoint designs completely cover the canvas. [1] Although needlepoint may be worked in a variety of stitches, many needlepoint designs use only a simple tent stitch and rely upon color changes in the yarn to ...

  3. Kaffe Fassett - Wikipedia

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    Brandon Mably. Frank Havrah "Kaffe" Fassett, MBE (born December 7, 1937) is an American-born, British-based artist who is best known for his colourful designs in the decorative arts— needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics. [2] While still a child, Fassett renamed himself after an Egyptian boy character from the book Boy of ...

  4. Berlin wool work - Wikipedia

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    Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. [1]: 66 It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, [2] worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work.

  5. Women's Home Industries - Wikipedia

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    Women's Home Industries. Women's Home Industries was a company founded in 1947 in London to earn export revenue for the UK in the post- war period by harnessing women's craft skills, such as knitting and needlework. Originally seen as part of the effort to rebuild the economy – and a way to give women practical work they could do from home ...

  6. Needlework - Wikipedia

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    Needlework. Embroidered book cover made by Elizabeth I at the age of 11, presented to Katherine Parr. Needlework is decorative sewing and textile arts handicrafts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework. [1] Needlework may include related textile crafts such as crochet, worked with a hook, or tatting, worked with ...

  7. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    Sampler (needlework) An American sampler: "Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth [sic] year of her age 1831". English band sampler featuring 'boxers', c. 1650. A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework.

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