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Yak lace is a form of guipure (bobbin) lace. It was made in England in imitation of Maltese and Greek laces. It was generally made of woollen yarns (certainly not exclusively yak). It became popular from the mid-nineteenth century. For guipure laces, see also Genoese lace, Bedfordshire lace, Cluny lace and Maltese lace.

The Textile Research Centre in Leiden has a so-called pronkstuk or pronkrol. It is a long sampler of some 7.5 m long and 40 m wide, showing a wide variety of embroidery techniques and some miniature garments.

See Hicks, Martha.

Martha Ann Erskine Ricks (d. 1901) was born into slavery in the USA, around 1817. Her father worked to buy his, his wife’s and their seven children’s freedom. When Martha was 13 the family sailed to Liberia. Within a year only Martha and her two brothers remained alive. Martha married and helped manage a farm where she grew coffee, cacao, sugar cane and ginger.

Some thirty volunteers have completed a massive embroidered tapestry of some 90 metres long to commemorate the Battle of Winterfell, the Battle at King's Landing and the Red Wediing. All are episodes from the hitseries Game of Thrones.

Phoebe Anna Traquair was born in Ireland, and achieved wide-spread recognition for her role in the development of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland. She was working within the context of the Celtic Revival and the pre-Raphaelites.

The collection of the Textile Research Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, houses a series of four postage stamps from Kazakhstan with depictions of local geometric embroidery motifs (TRC 2018.2837). These motifs are found on cloth and felt ground materials.

The Madonna del Ricamo (Our Lady of Embroidery) is the name of a fresco allegedly by the Italian medieval artist, Vitale da Bologna (c. 1309-1360). The fresco is now housed in the Museo della Storia di Bologna. It dates to the period between 1330 and 1340. The fresco measures 118 x 79 cm.

This item is housed at the Textile Research Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands. It is an embroidered sample, measuring 38 x 24 cm, from among the Miao ethnic minority in southern China. The motifs are hand embroidered with darning stitch and satin stitch. The sample dates to the late twentieth century.

The Textile Research Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, has an embroidered panel (32 x 10 cm) intended for a Miao woman's jacket. It is half finished, and so it is easy to see the paper template that forms the basis of the design.