Talk:Needlepoint

The section about buying books from Amazon (and talking up a particular book) feels more like an advertisement than like an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.59.64.113 (talk) 06:10, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Surely the wrong word?

“Isabella Beeton's Beeton's Book of Needlework (1870) does not use the term "needlework"”

Perhaps that should read “..the term "needlepoint"”? Harfarhs (talk) 17:14, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Merge

It was suggested at Talk:Canvas work (13 years ago!) that this article and Canvas work should be merged. I have a number of sources that indicate that "canvas work" is a synonym for "needlepoint" including the Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus and this article at the Textile Research Centre, Leiden. Any objections? - PKM (talk) 21:36, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 16:47, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Minor punctuation error in “Famous needlepointers” section

The opening sentence of this section lists royal needlepointers. The first mentioned is Mary, Queen of Scots, followed by several others. Because Mary, Queen of Scots, has a comma in her title, it would be less ambiguous to separate the people in this list with semicolons rather than commas:

”Royal needlepointers include: Mary, Queen of Scots; a second person; a third person…”

I will not comment on using an Oxford comma - that’s a personal choice. 50.93.222.221 (talk) 12:25, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Add definition of Long Stitch & Upright Cross Stitch

Since there are no Wikipedia pages yet of the definitions for these, I would like to add brief definitions of them citing the book Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches and removing the link on the names.

As I am new to editing Wikipedia I would welcome comments on this edition! Mya Harper (talk) 20:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)