Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. English embroidery has a long history as a storytelling medium. During the medieval period, needlework was used to ...

India’s textile heritage is a story written in needle and thread. For centuries, artisans across different regions have created embroidery styles that are not just decorative, but deeply cultural, ...

Marie Palmer's desk is covered in a swirl of color — a turquoise sewing machine, boxes overflowing with thread, and acrylic landscape paintings in various states of completion. She sits in her pink ...

La aguja maravillosa, “the magical needle,” dips in and out of the maroon velvet cloth, leaving behind a delicate loop of colorful cotton thread with each venture that will soon form the shape of a ...

Embroidery. Needlework. Stitchery. If you’re suddenly picturing an elderly lady bent over miniscule threads, needling them through cloth barely illuminated by a flickering candle — you might want to ...