Category Archives: handicrafts

Needlework is decorative sewing and textile arts handicrafts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework.[1] Needlework may include related textile crafts such as crochet, worked with a hook, or tatting, worked with a shuttle. Similar abilities often transfer well between different varieties of needlework, such as fine motor skill and knowledge […]

Needlework was an important fact of women’s identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work. A growing middle class had more leisure time than ever before; printed materials offered homemakers thousands of patterns. Women were still limited to roles in the household, and under the standards of the time […]