Lexic.us

Definition of Needlecraft

1. Noun. A creation created or assembled by needle and thread.

2. Noun. Work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle.

Definition of Needlecraft

1. Noun. The art or process of working with a needle esp. in embroidery or needlepoint. ¹

2. Noun. The product of such art or process. ¹

3. Noun. The occupation or employment of a person skilled in embroidery, needlepoint, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Needlecraft

needle palm needle point tracing needle rush needle sharing needle spike rush needle time needle valve needle valves needle wood needlebook

needlebooks needlebush needlecase needlecases needlecord needlecraft (current term) needlecrafter needlecrafters needlecrafts needled

needlefish needlefishes needleful needlelace needleless needlelike needlenose needlenose pliers needlenosed pliers needlepoint

Literary usage of Needlecraft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1899)
"CHAPTER XVI needlecraft AND DECORATIVE ARTS She wrought all Needleworks that Women exercise, With Pin Frame or Stoole all Pictures Artificial!, ..."

2. Woman in India by Mary Frances Billington (1895)
"... did not grasp what I have since, and that is, that in no branch of Indian art has British influence been so mischievously detrimental as in needlecraft. ..."

3. Teaching in Rural Schools by Thomas Jackson Woofter (1917)
"needlecraft Sewing and care of clothes. The Home Economics Club should take up sewing activities also. This is easy to do, because it requires no elaborate ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"needlecraft. Archer, EA $1.75. Doubleday, Pago. NEEDLEWORK. Archer, EA needlecraft. $1.75. Doubleday, Page. Foster, OH Sewing for little girls. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"The children attend school until they are fourteen years of age, after which they are taught domestic work, needlecraft, or trades. In the domestic training ..."

6. Who are the Slavs?: A Contribution to Race Psychology by Paul Rankov Radosavljevich (1919)
"All of this has been accomplished in the face of many handicaps in both countries. specimens of Russian needlecraft, as well as other work of the ..."

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