Sampler making was a home rather than a school taught industry, going down from mother to daughter along with darning and other processes of the needle, and having no relation, except that of its dexterity, to the distinct style of decorative embroidery called crewelwork, which accompanied it, or even preceded it. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
I can embroider beautiful needlepoint and crewelwork stitches, but that kind of thing doesn't earn any money. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers In The Attic]
Momma had taught me to do some needlepoint stitches, and also crewelwork on my first birthday in that locked room. From Wordnik.com. [Flowers In The Attic]
Standing on my toes and moving slowly toward the back of the house, I saw rooms festooned with crewelwork wall hangings and hunting prints. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Nocturne]
It was quite the largest bed she had ever seen, with its sweeping crewelwork canopy and line of pillows marching from one side to the other at the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
The first deviation from the habitual crewelwork is to be found in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
I'd love to stick with crewelwork, but anything similar would be great. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
It was owing to various reasons that outline embroidery largely took the place of solid crewelwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
These were wrought with borders of crewelwork, and finished with elaborate thread and crewel fringes. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
Pottery Barn also stocks a quilt collection, as well as crewelwork pillows, galvanized steel serveware and cool repro signage. From Wordnik.com. [RutlandHerald.com] Reference
Pottery Barn also stocks a quilt collection, as well as crewelwork pillows, galvanized steel serve ware and cool repro signage. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
It is not to be wondered at that blue-and-white crewelwork made a place for itself in the history of embroidery which was a permanent one. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
A chapter upon Samplers, by right, should precede the discussion of colonial embroidery, although the practice of mothers in crewelwork was simultaneous with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
The stitch, quite different from that of crewelwork or picture embroidery of the preceding period, was the simple over and over stitch we find in French embroidery of the present day. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
Find here too some great cast-brass hooks shaped like old keys, crewelwork drapery, candle holders inspired by vintage thread spools, and wonderful ceramic knobs topped with tiny floral tea saucers. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
It was not alone bed hangings which were subjects of New England crewelwork; there were mantel valances, which covered the plain wooden mantels and hung at a safe distance above the generous household fires. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
A lifetime's worth of household goods - dressers, chests, bed linens, crewelwork pillows, kitchenware, Christmas decorations, outdoor furniture, books and art work - were offered for sale by the personal property liquidator Leighton Galleries. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
There must be a long curtain at the head of the bed, which would hide both headboard and plain headposts, and this curtain she meant should have a wide border of crewelwork at the top and bunches of flowers scattered at intervals on its surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
We find designs of crewelwork of the period in English museums identically the same as in the New England work, thorned roses and voluminously doubled pinks, held together in borders of long curved lines or scattered at regular intervals in groups and bunches. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
Although this variety of work comes under the head of colonial crewelwork, there was in it the beginning of the changes and variety effected by differing circumstances and influences -- those vital circumstances which leave their traces constantly along the history of needlework. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
The crewelwork of New England was the first ornamental stitchery practiced in this country by women of European race, and in their hands made its first appearance even during the days of privation and nights of fear which were their portion in this strange new world to which they had come. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
While the ladies and house mistresses of New England were busy with their crewelwork, the children with their little samplers, and farm housemothers sewed patchwork in the intervals of spinning and weaving, an entirely different development of needlework art had taken place, beginning in Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
Since the Chattisbournes had already given us a hat pin holder, a cushion with crewelwork violets and sweet peas, an egg boiler, and a cane with a carved dog’s head, the basket was already nearly full, and I had no idea how I was going to carry it all home. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The familiar crewelwork of. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference
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