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Long before digital nomads spread out across the country with their laptops and their lattes, Irish women in the 1800s were the original remote workers, supporting their families by making lace, ...

Researchers tested embroidery as a low-cost technique for making power-generating yarns. Embroidering power-generating yarns onto fabric allowed researchers to embed a self-powered, numerical ...

Tao Yonghong makes a Gan hair embroidery work at an exhibition center for intangible cultural heritage in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 13, 2024. Gan hair embroidery is an art that ...

Yao Huifen (R) watches her daughter making embroidery at her workshop in Zhenhu Town of Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 11, 2019. Suzhou Embroidery, one of the four most famous ...

Wu Wanjing is head of Xinyu (a city in east China's Jiangxi Province) Xiabu Embroidery Art Research Institute. As a municipal-level inheritor of xiabu (literally "cloth for summer") embroidery crafts, ...

Located in Ninh Hai Commune, Hoa Lu District of Ninh Binh Province, Van Lam embroidery-making village has a long history famous nationwide for this traditional craft. Located in Ninh Hai Commune, Hoa ...

Needlework may conjure up images of grandmothers and Country Women’s Association fairs, but these sisters do embroidery with an edge. Embroidery and needle work may conjure images of grandmothers and ...

(Nanowerk News) Embroidering power-generating yarns onto fabric allowed researchers to embed a self-powered, numerical touch-pad and movement sensors into clothing. The technique offers a low-cost, ...