Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a small, unassuming workshop off London’s Oxford Street, three embroiderers are hunched over wooden frames, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. English embroidery has a long history as a storytelling medium. During the medieval period, needlework was used to ...

I mainly use DMC embroidery floss. For DMC No. 5 and No. 8 and for linen thread, I embroider with a single strand.

It was in the early 1960’s that Mrs. Siva Obeyesekere, who was passionate about all things handmade, started 15 sewing centers in the Attanagalle and Maligawa electorate. About 500 women attended the ...

Every Saturday morning, the brick road leading to Tu Thi hand embroidery shop in Quat Dong Village in Hanoi comes alive as ...

Kim Thoa from Thanh Hoa province developed her hobby of embroidering on different materials and making handicrafts. Her embroidered paintings on Bodhi leaves have become famous and earned her high ...