Unlike sheep, Orenburg goats are never shorn; the fleece is combed manually with a hooked tool once a year when they're ready to shed. If you've been reading PieceWork for a while, you're probably...

Here's Amy Clarke Moore, the editor of Spin-Off , to tell you a bit more about her recent project, Jane Austen Knits : Carol Rhoades's Flower and Lace Cuffs. I remember many years ago standing...

Translating ethnic traditions into modern fashion is a tricky business. The pitfalls are legion: dumbing down, misconstruing, disrespecting, just getting it "wrong." Our first edition of Folk...

Editors' Note: We invited Annie Bakken, associate producer of Knitting Daily TV , to tell us about their newest DVD. Make It Fit! How many times have we all fallen in love with a pattern we see and...

PieceWork ’ s most popular special issue, Knitting Traditions , is here! Carol Rhoades’s bead- and lace-knitted half gloves inspired by traditional German folk costume. Photo by Joe Coca ....

Needlecraft Magazine , February 1925 Recently, PieceWork’s editor, Jeane Hutchins, and I have been spending a bit of time sifting through PieceWork 's archival collection in the dim reaches of...

I'm a big fan of PBS's History Detectives program, in part because it goes beyond merely looking at an object but also tries to uncloak the object's historical story. And now PieceWork has...

Standing in front of the magazine rack at my local newsstand or browsing through the latest crochet magazine issue and updating my mental queue, I find myself thinking about crochet's future. What...