Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Documents for the rec.crafts.textiles.needlework newsgroup have conversion charts, magazine lists, mail order lists, guild lists, and many other collections of information.

AccroStitch - Information about cross stitch in France. (France)

American Folk Arts - Cross stitch and sampler designs. Online Hardanger stitch diagrams. Free sampler chart. (USA)

Au Point Comptè (France)

Avery Hill - Designs for Swedish weaving, also known as huck weaving or huck embroidery. Online instructions for Swedish weaving. (USA)

Belel Homepage - Basic cross stitch information and a list of links. (in Catalan and Spanish)

Blackwork Embroidery Archives - Contains blackwork patterns designed by Paula Katherine Marmor from her four-part Elizabethan Blackwork booklet series.

Blackwork Techniques and History

CameoRoze's Stitcher's Studio - A list of stores, information about the America Online Stitch Chats, biographies of designers, lists of online needlework sites, and much more.

Caring for your Antique Sampler

Crazy Quilt Central - Embroidery on crazy quilts.

Cross Stitch 'Rules' - Hints, tips and advice.

Dreams of Lace - Christiane Eichler's site includes her German-to-English and English-to-German dictionaries of fibercraft terms.

El Rincon del Punto Cruz - Cross stitch how-to in Spanish.

Embroidery in the Netherlands - Collected information about clubs, shops, magazines, exhibitions and gatherings in the Netherlands. Also available in Dutch, of course, at Borduren in Nederland. (Netherlands)

Examplar's Stitchery Page - There is a list of Needlework Guilds. For lovers of samplers. There are pictures of Ellen's own projects and information about the Ann Holewill sampler. (USA)

Handicrafting With Teresa - Beginning instructions for cross stitch, crochet, embroidery, knitting, sewing, and quilting.

Heritage Shoppe - Wool embroidery and other surface/free embroidery techniques, smocking and heirloom sewing. There are online classes, a guide to embroidery stitches, and information about embroidery. (USA)

How to Design Great Cross-Stitch Charts on a Computer

International Linen Registry Needleart Museum - Pictures of their displays, and an article on Textile Care. (USA)

Jacqui's Pages - Jacqui Goulbourn's site describes needlework activities.

The Japanese Embroidery Home Page - Christina Aubin's site about online and real world resources for Japanese Embroidery.

Judy's Temari Website - Temari examples and instructions. (Canada)

Lesa Steele Designs - Sampler designs. There is also a reference article about Hardanger, an article on how to publish your own designs, and a free chart. (USA)

Little Sayings - Collection of sayings suitable for needlework projects.

Martha Beth Lewis' Piano, Needlework, and Chocolate Home Page - Tips, charts and pictures. Information about The Business of Needlework and Copyright and Needlework.

Le Meilleur du Point de Croix vu par Marie - List of stitching resources in France. Free charts. (France)

The Needlepoint Group - Presents A Guide to Needlepoint.

Needlepointers.com - Free projects, needlework information.

Offe's - (Åsa Olofsson) site includes Offe's cross-stitch design page. Here you can find free charts of some of her designs.

Phouka's Page - Floss lists for Teresa Wentzler cross stitch charts and a Gentle Art Sampler Thread/DMC conversion chart.

Piko's Cross Stitch Garden - Stitching instructions and links(in Japanese) and free charts (in English). (Japan)

Robert Tusler's Home Page - Information about needlepoint. There is also a picture of his Knot Garden

Shepherd's Bush Unofficial Site - Fan site for the Shepherd's Bush designs.

Silken Strands - Threads for hand and machine embroidery. Blackwork tutorials. (UK)

Simply Samplers - Information about samplers and about needlework in general. (UK)

Stefania's Corner - English and Italian versions of site have free charts, a guide to reversible cross stitch, a picture gallery, and the Italian translation of my Counted Cross Stitch Tutorial. (Italy)

Steph's Home Page - Has free needlework charts and information about tatting and lace making.

Stitch In Time - Online discussion forum.

Storing Antique Textiles

Temari Canada - Resources for Canadian temari artists. (Canada)

TLC Brazilian - Information about Brazilian Embroidery. (Canada)

Told in a Garden - The home of Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum's "Told in a Garden", "Lavender & Lace", and "Butternut Road" designs. Free christmas angel charts, one chart for each year starting with 1986. There is also a page listing alternate skin colors. (USA)

The Webstitcher's Sourcebook - Color theory, DMC to HTML color conversions, stitchery related clip art.

Yahoo Image Surf - Has needlework pictures in their "Arts:Textiles" category.

Yvonne's 3d embroidery page