crewel work
crewel embroidery

The crafts will include crewel work, spinning and weaving, outdoor cooking and blacksmithing.

The drawing room is soft mushroom: 'Getting the right shade was difficult because anything too clean could make the crewel work look dirty.'

'Crewel work,' said Maude.

A Tambour Work technique is also used for creating chain stitched rugs, and is sometimes referred to as crewel work.

Surface embroidery may be performed on plainweave, such as crewel work, goldwork, stumpwork, cutwork, and candlewicking.

Volume 2 - stocking knitter, cross-stitch embroidery, crewel work, bazaar articles, knitting, crochet, smocking, appliqué work, netting, lace, crochet edgings, knitting edgings.

Sylvia thought of Aunt Jane's very different cata- logue o( accomplishments for little girls, in which crewel work, purse netting, and making paper doilies took high place, and could not agree with him.

Curious fashions of the mid-17th century were raised work or stumpwork, a pictorial style featuring detached and padded elements, and crewel work, featuring exotic leaf motifs worked in wool yarn.

"I did barefoot brides in beautiful dresses from India in natural linen with beads and colored crewel work," Ms. Hickey said, "and dresses from Mexico that were all short and perky.

Queen Anne figures again in the bedroom one floor up: the massive 17th-century four-poster bed is hung with Queen Anne crewel work, with its distinctive pattern of intertwining leaves and flowers on a cream background.