Volume XX

Number 2

F e at u r e s / P r o j e c t s
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Tools from Our Readers

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Enjoy these tools from the collections of PieceWork readers.

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Scissors, Shears, and Snips

Grace Goss had a collection numbering more than 700, which she donated to the
Loveland (Colorado) Museum/Gallery in 2011.

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A Pinkeep to Stitch in Punch Needle by Brenda Ger vais

The Hazy History of Knitting Needles by Anne Berk
What little is known about the origin and evolution of knitting needles is fascinating.

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Making Artificial Flowers with Flower Irons

by Arlene Baker

The authors search for the history of artificial flowers and the tools used to make them.

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A Rose Bouquet Kit by Arlene Baker

The Sewing Bird: Love Charm, Health Tonic,
and Ladys Companion by Er in Gilday
The figural sewing bird with a mechanical tail and trick beak first appeared in
early-eighteenth-century England.

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ON THE COVER
TAMBOUR-BEADED
COCKTAIL DRESS, page 34
Photograph by Joe Coca.
VIKING CABLE BERET, page 51

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by Cat Stolzenbach

Bosnian crochet is little known in the United States, perhaps because the technique is
also known by a variety of other names.

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SEWING BIRDS, page 21

During both World Wars, nearly all noncombatants were encouraged to knit for servicemen, the
wounded, European refugees, and the patriotic home front. Patriotic bags and tools proliferated.

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Letter from the editor
Upcoming events

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8 Book Marks

Books of interest
10 TAPESTRY

New and noteworthy

Tambour: A Dance of the Hands

by Robert Haven

Discover the history of tambour beading, a method of attaching beads to fabric using the
technique of tambour embroidery.

Departments/C OLUMNS

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A Hat with a Bosnian Twist to Crochet by Cat Stolzenbach

Patriotic Knitting Bags and Tools of the World Wars
by Karen C. K. Ballard

BOSNIAN CROCHET, page 26

2 Notions

A Bag for Knitters to Knit

Bosnian Crochet: Rediscovering a Lost Craft

A Scarf to Tambour-Embroider by Robert Haven

Geometric Knitted Motifs: Knitting Needles
Can Help Track Them by Ava T. Coleman
Explore the ways in which needles helped early knitters create sophisticated color-worked motifs.

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56 Abbreviations and
Techniques

Geometric Knitting Tutorial by Ava T. Coleman

Reweaving Damaged Fabric: Patience Is a Virtue
by Monette Satterfield

Between the 1950s and the early 1970s, the Fabricon Company of Chicago offered a two-part
correspondence course teaching the techniques of reweaving.

Definitions

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Looping, and Knitting, along the Viking Trail

by Marge Thorell

The Vikings made mittens, caps, and footwear using a technique later called nlbinding
and believed to be a precursor of knitting.

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Atle Beret to Knit: A Viking Cable Project

by Elsebeth Lavold

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