They embroider, and do other fancywork, and they sing and play.
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She enjoyed tatting and fancywork, cooking, her family, flower gardening and baking.
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For the most of the time Mrs. Stanhope and Mrs. Laning did fancywork.
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I think I liked the horses and the flowers and the fancywork best.
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Mingott's sole pursuit, and she would have scorned to feign an interest in fancywork.
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Why will dear old ladies cherish these household monsters, festooning them with ribbons and fancywork?
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Often the mothers brought their fancywork and sat on the shady side of the tent during the lesson.
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She lives alone in a little house with a green yard, and keeps a fancywork and millinery store.
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I took Madonna there on an occasion to gather the little shells for the fancywork the master makes.
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And indeed even as his eyes fell upon my fancywork he seemed to take a new lease of life.
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Y'u sit there in that chair, where I can see y'u doing that fancywork and I'll not say a word.
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The more daring Joyce's subjects become, the more he tends to swathe them about with the fancywork of his literary virtuosity.
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She never did fancywork, and knew nothing of sewing, so her thread knotted and broke, and her patch presented a sorry sight.
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He could talk about rural economy with the count, fashions with the countess and Natasha, and about albums and fancywork with Sonya.
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A practical-minded farm wife born in 1860, she progressed from fancywork embroidery to become a much-beloved memory painter and American icon.
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In 1976 McMahon and artist Frances (Budden) Phoenix initiated The Women's Domestic Needlework Group (WDNG) Their aim was to reclaim the creative, but historically undervalued, practices of embroidery, knitting, crochet, lace making and needlework. The most significant of their four exhibitions was the D’Oyley exhibition at Watters Gallery in Sydney in 1979. The exhibition, focusing on women’s ‘fancywork’ featured more than 700 handmade doilies that were collected from various thrift shops. The exhibition was sponsored the Crafts Board of the Australia Council.
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A good description of this can be found in Knots, Splices and Fancywork. Some believe tatting originated over 200 years ago, often citing shuttles seen in 18th- century paintings of women such as Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Princess Marie Adélaïde of France, and Anne, Countess of Albemarle. A close inspection of those paintings, however, shows that the shuttles in question are too large to be tatting shuttles, and that they are actually knotting shuttles. There is no documentation of or examples of tatted lace that dates prior to 1800.
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With Marie McMahon, Phoenix began a doily archive, researching the history of women's needlework and running women's needlework classes at Sydney University's Tin Sheds. With Joan Grounds, Bernadette Krone, Kathy Letray, Patricia McDonald, Noela Taylor and Loretta Vieceli, McMahon and Phoenix formed the Women's Domestic Needlework collection, preparing the archive for a touring exhibition, beginning at Watters Gallery, Sydney. The group supplemented the exhibition with research in Lip, two publications: The D’oyley Show: An Exhibition of Women’s Domestic Fancywork and Work for Dainty Fingers and a series of 10 screenprinted posters. With Marie McMahon, Phoenix travelled to the United States of America to contribute needlework skills to Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party (1974–79).
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Yahgan basket, woven by Abuela Cristina Calderón, Chile, photo by Jim Cadwell Basket weaving is one of the ancient and most-widespread art forms in the Americas. From coiled sea lyme grass baskets in Nunavut to bark baskets in Tierra del Fuego, Native artists weave baskets from a wide range of materials. Typically baskets are made of vegetable fibers, but Tohono O'odham are known for their horsehair baskets and Inupiaq artists weave baskets from baleen, filtering plates of certain whales.Hessel, Arctic Spirit, p. 17 Grand Traverse Band Kelly Church, Wasco-Wishram Pat Gold, and Eastern Band Cherokee Joel Queen all weave baskets from copper sheets or wire, and Mi'kmaq-Onondaga conceptual artist Gail Tremblay weaves baskets in the traditional fancywork patterns of her tribes from exposed film.
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