FARMINGTON — Samples of Lawrence Wilber’s intricate works of cross-stitch are on display in the Ben Franklin Medical Library at Franklin Memorial Hospital. Wilber, 88, a former Wilton resident ...

McKee agrees. She sees the new wave of cross-stitch as a way to rebel against the idea of craft as not “real” art, or work. “We like to denigrate women’s work, we like to put it in the ...

Jill Nammar is the owner of Sew French Cross Stitch. Her French-inspired work is often floral-filled and fit for fine vintage linens.

Through cross-stitch, Siret says, ... taking the prim Victorian sampler and subverting it. From the 1970s until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1985, ...