needlepoint

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Diane Briones Williams’s textiles at Official Welcome inject international flair into Western art history by rendering traditional scenes—landscapes, still lifes and genre painings—in needlepoint, then adding elements that touch on the artist’s Filipino heritage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

She was reported to fill her time with needlepoint and bookkeeping duties, and was paroled in 2007 at the age of 77 from a low-security federal facility for women in Dublin, east of San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

The always provocative, usually salacious Sal Salandra devotes one half of his needlepoint, “What’s With the Smile Mona?” to an exquisite rendition of Leonardo’s masterpiece, depicted on the easel in the master’s messy studio.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

The two also became business partners, opening a needlepoint shop on the Upper East Side called 2 Needles.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

She is seated on a needlepoint brocade chair and I see by the way her finger is moving that she is counting the stitches in the seat.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko