"The uniqueness of the design does not necessarily mean that it is the most expensive. Sometimes, even inexpensive materials can make the most beautiful designs," explains Imraan, a Sion-based ...

For a while, tattoos were primarily associated with prisons, gangs, and skulls and crossbone designs. That’s clearly not the case anymore. Take a scroll through Instagram and you’ll find dainty floral ...

Colcha is a type of embroidered textile in which a long stitch is tacked down with a series of angled cross stitches on a piece of woven fabric. “That makes it specifically colcha, as opposed to any ...

Queen Mary II, who co-ruled England with her husband William III from 1689 to 1694, was known for the crewel embroidery ...

Ever notice stumpwork in an antiques auction or shop? Stumpwork is a type of early embroidery that makes raised areas on a flat textile to make a three-dimensional design. This difficult type of ...

Designer Tomáš Kompaník travelled around Slovakia to collect stories and designs for his second book. “It was unacceptable for neighbours in a settlement to have two identical types of embroidery.

An 88-year-old Westminster woman has been making quite a name for herself through her art in the past five years. In 2019, Josephine Lobato was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National ...

Although a sewing ring, threads, beads, tikkis (sequence), and a needle are all required to create an embroidery piece, the skill and patience of the embroider is what gives the soul to embroidery.