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'Colour & Light: Embroidery from India and Pakistan', was the title of an exhibition set up in 2007 by the Textile Museum of Canada. The curator of the exhibition was Dale Carolyn Gluckman, an American textile historian.

A remarkable, embroidered copy of a King James Bible was published in 1629 and is now kept by the Shakespeare Birthday Trust (SBT). Bound in leather and covered with white silk, it is embroidered with a 'Garden of Eden' design with birds, snakes, insects, plants and flowers. The cover is also ornamented with sequins, crewel work, and a braid made of yellow thread and wrapped with metal thread.

In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, there is an embroidered formal chair that dates to the eighteenth century and was made and used in France. It was manufactured by the famous craftsman, Georges Jacob (1739-1814), and the chair's embroideries were made, so it would appear, by Joseph-François-Xavier Baudoin (1739-c. 1786).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses an eighteenth century, American-made adjustable embroidery frame, designed to be placed on the floor, leaving the hands free to work the embroidery. It is made of mahogany and cherry wood and measures 139.7 x 105.4 cm.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a copy of the first and second volumes of the Zeichen-Mahler und Stickerbuch zur Selbstbelehrung für Damen welche sich mit diesen Künsten beschäftigen, by Johann Friedrich Netto (1756-1810). The first volume was published in Leipzig in 1795 (acc. no. 25.65.4); the second in 1798 (acc. no. 32.121.3), and the third in 1800.

'Painting with Threads: Chinese Tapestry and Embroidery, 12th–19th Century' was the title of a small exhibition (called installation in American parlance) displaying a small selection from the Museum holdings of Chinese tapestries and embroideries. The exhibition ran from late 2014 to the summer of 2015. 

In 2015-2016, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York organised an exhibition called 'American and European Embroidered Samplers, 1600-1900'. The exhibition showed a selection of some thirty examples from the total of some eight hundred samplers housed in the Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounted an exhibition in 2015 that focussed on the highly decorative upper class men's wear in France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It showed long lengths of cloth woven for a man's outfit, but never cut and sewn together. The exhibition included samples of embroidery for men's garments, worked between 1760 and 1815, mainly from France.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses a page from an album of embroidery designs that originates from The Netherlands and dates to the early seventeenth century. The design is executed with pen and ink, with some wash. The design is unfinished.

The oil on canvas 'Women Working on Pillow Lace' (also known as 'The Sewing School') was painted by the Italian artist, Giacomo Ceruti (1698-1767). It is one of many paintings and drawings with the same theme, made in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. A sewing school was a popular theme, allegedly developed by the Danish artist, Bernhard Keil (1624-1687), who worked and travelled widely in northern Italy.