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Stitch & Rivet’s Katie Stack built her business constructing beautiful, handworked leather cross-body bags, belts and wallets to sell at markets and, eventually, from a studio on Brookland’s Monroe Street Market Arts Walk.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2020

At Manescalchi, a linen purveyor favored by the Milanese haute bourgeoisie, Guadagnino found from dead stock a collection of pristine place mats and napkins with elaborately handworked fagoting details.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2018

The artist’s frequently handworked prints provide the through line in this compact, vivid survey, on view through Jan. 28.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2017

The riotous tropical vegetation was cut back, and existing pathways were improved with steps of volcanic tuff, handworked balustrades and pergolas dripping with jade vines, dragon’s claws, thunbergia.

From Architectural Digest • Jun. 1, 2010

The fabrics known as Plain Tapestries are a mixture of silk and cotton, manufactured in imitation of the handworked backgrounds so frequent in ancient embroideries—especially Venetian.

From Handbook of Embroidery by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess