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

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

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2024

Zoe Kurland: Even though the Troy School was different, these learned women still found themselves graduating into a world where they would be expected to cook and clean and needlepoint and smell nice and whatever.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

“It Is About the Weight,” proclaims a cushion stitched in needlepoint by Berlin.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Mrs. Nielsen teaches me to needlepoint; while she’s making intricately detailed pillows for the sofa, I work on the floral cover for a stool.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline