Word: needlework
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...treatment. But we realized that we were not alone when the nice doctor who was treating us told us that we were not the first ones to come seeking stitches this evening. One yet-to-be-named varsity hockey player had also stopped in for some of UHS' famous needlework. The doctor, upon learning our affiliation with The Crimson, refused to disclose the identity of the mystery hockey player, but he did mention that the sight of blood was too much for even the NCAA champion to handle...
...been woven out of high ideals and simple decency. A few years ago, when it became obvious that it was time to repair that rent, our popular culture took on something of the air of a vast quilting bee, with writers, filmmakers and TV producers bending over their restorative needlework...
...gave visual evidence of the Medvedkov's many friends in the West. Dozens of familiar American "no-nukes" bumper-stickers were pasted to the walls and bookshelves. Hanging on the wall above the couch were two patch-work sections from the "women's peace ribbon," a five-mile long needlework collection which was wrapped around the Pentagon and other Washington buildings last summer in a symbolic statement against nuclear armament...
Documenting the varied lives of these textile factory workers, teachers; artists, and housewives, the oral histories relate how needlework has helped these women overcome troubles in their homelands and difficulties in adjusting to a new country...
...nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention: smiles for the boys, frowns for the girls. These miniatures are more than mere playthings. Black dolls of the South were...