Curated OER
A Walk Through the Past: A Grave Undertaking
Learners explore how historians construct a story out of fragments of the past; a discussion of nineteenth century poetry and art leads students to connect art and literature to their place in time.
Other
A Guide to Needlepoint
This site provides you with all the knowledge, tools and techniques to do a successful needlepoint project. To find what you need to know to stitch on each type of canvas listed, click on that particular canvas.
Other
Wonderful Stitches
Features many resources that provide patterns and designs for needlepoint, cross-stitch and other forms of decorative stitching. Includes numerous links to other needlework and craft sites.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Illustrated Girl's Own Treasury by H. Tuck
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Illustrated Girl's Own Treasury by H. Tuck (1861), a handbook for girls including notable women of the Bible, needlework, materials, exercises, birds, and much...
Other
Southern Decorative Needlework
An account by Heather Palmer of the importance of the role of needlework in the lives of southern women during the nineteenth century.
Peabody Essex Museum
Peabody Essex Museum: The Art of American Embroidery
An exhibition overview about fiber arts. A selective history with representative examples of American Fiber Arts.
Other
National Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps
Hand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Satin Stitch (Damask Stitch)
The satin stitch is a type of stitching where you stitch a series of stitches side by side to decorate a fabric or attach one fabric to another.
Curated OER
How to Cross Stitch
Simple written and illustrated instrctions on how to do a basic cross stitch.
Curated OER
How to Cross Stitch
Simple written and illustrated instrctions on how to do a basic cross stitch.