needlepoint
Example Sentences
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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
During an art residency last year in a former castle in the Umbrian countryside, the textile artist Liz Collins sat in her temporary studio stitching a needlepoint.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
She gave the actor a “beautiful needlepoint pillow” and they’ve spoken over the phone about their favorite cop shows.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 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
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
