Word: needlework
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...Winning bid for a Kennedy-owned needlework panel of a spaniel. The presale estimate topped...
...with Queen Beatrix. "I considered it a great honor," Van Andel-Schipper told the Courant. "She was really nice. I let her ask the questions. I thought that would be best." Although her sight is failing and she's become a little wobbly on her feet, the former needlework instructor remains mentally alert and socially engaged. "She's really interested in what's going on in the world and listens to the news on the radio most days," Beijering says. Longevity didn't seem to be in the cards when Van Andel-Schipper was young, though. She was sickly...
...Needlework Learning to sew at age 5 helped Michael DeBakey develop the dexterity he needed as a surgeon
Koniaków, in Poland's remote southwestern Beskidy Mountains, has long been celebrated for its superb needlework. Since the 16th century Jagiellon dynasty, the women of this tiny village have been making exquisitely crocheted household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniak...
Something, that is, other than designing cross-stitch needlework patterns...