By Ashlie Miller Does the weekend weather have you bundled and boarded up for maybe the next few days? It may be the perfect ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to create the look of a custom needlework sampler.

The Stitch Bank now has 275 types of embroidery stitches known across the globe, thanks to the recent addition of 25, reports the Stitch Bank’s manager, the Royal School of Needlework, a 150-year-old ...

Gallery walls have become very popular, but they can get a bit boring when all the elements look too similar. Here's how to ...

In early America, local governments, the courts and the clergy collected vital data like births, marriages and deaths. But these records weren’t the only tools people used to track their family ...

Two hundred years ago, a 10-year-old Scottish girl named Margret Begbie threaded her needle. Carefully and precisely she stitched the finishing touches on a piece of embroidery that had occupied her ...

Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. By Libby Banks Reporting from Berlin Needlework and computer coding might seem to be ...

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, notebooks and newspapers America's 250th Anniversary A new book explores ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. By the eighteenth century, needlework samplers containing moral and religious verses had become popular. Artist Ira ...

Long before there was ancestry.com, there were samplers. “Genealogical samplers recording births, marriages and deaths became popular around 1790,” explains a placard accompanying the new exhibition ...