Hedy Strnad, a dressmaker in Prague in the 1930s, was not able to escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. However, some of her fashion designs did. Eight of her sketches, along with the garments they ...
Fashion is everywhere. From high-end models strutting the runway to an ordinary college-going student trying to decide their pick of clothes for the day. Despite being available for purchase, many ...
Zari-zardozi from Mainpuri is a home-grown craft built on women’s stitching networks, shared learning and small-batch ...
Missouri Pettway, "Blocks and Strips Work-Clothes Quilt" (1942), cotton, corduroy, and cotton sacking, 90 × 69 inches, National Gallery of Art, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep ...
JAMES CITY — Stitching enthusiasts in the Williamsburg area have a replacement store in the stitching world with opening of Liberty Hill Needleworks on Longhill Road. For more than 40 years, Lydia ...