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29th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

A man prays at a cenotaph decorated with needlework reading "prayer" to commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake at a park in Awaji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2024, the 29th anniversary of the disaster in the western Japan city and its vicinity that killed more than 6,000 people.

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LEBANON-BEIRUT-CHRISTMAS-FLEA MARKET

(221211) -- BEIRUT, Dec. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman does needlework at her stall in a flea market in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 10, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Zongya)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-LIFESTYLE-KNITTING TRADITION

(220903) -- NAIROBI, Sept. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- An employee poses for photos next to a display of yarns at a yarn shop in downtown Nairobi, Kenya's capital, Aug. 25, 2022. In Kenya, crocheting and knitting are typical needlework undertakings usually done listlessly by women to create dainty doilies and cheap household items such as beanies and baby shawls. However, this century-old practice appears to be staging a comeback with newer spunkier designs. TO GO WITH "Feature: Kenyan creatives revive knitting to expand revenue streams" (Photo by Chrispinus Omar/Xinhua)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-LIFESTYLE-KNITTING TRADITION

(220903) -- NAIROBI, Sept. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Felister Nduta (L), a self-taught yarn crochet artist, poses next to a model wearing her yarn crocheted apparel in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 25, 2022. In Kenya, crocheting and knitting are typical needlework undertakings usually done listlessly by women to create dainty doilies and cheap household items such as beanies and baby shawls. However, this century-old practice appears to be staging a comeback with newer spunkier designs. TO GO WITH "Feature: Kenyan creatives revive knitting to expand revenue streams" (Photo by Chrispinus Omar/Xinhua)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-LIFESTYLE-KNITTING TRADITION

(220903) -- NAIROBI, Sept. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Nyawira Mafabi, a local entrepreneur, poses for photos with her African-themed dolls at her home in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 25, 2022. In Kenya, crocheting and knitting are typical needlework undertakings usually done listlessly by women to create dainty doilies and cheap household items such as beanies and baby shawls. However, this century-old practice appears to be staging a comeback with newer spunkier designs. TO GO WITH "Feature: Kenyan creatives revive knitting to expand revenue streams" (Photo by Chrispinus Omar/Xinhua)

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Wondrous Xinjiang: Chinese folk embroiderers learn from, inspire each other

STORY: Wondrous Xinjiang: Chinese folk embroiderers learn from, inspire each other DATELINE: August 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of Kazak embroideryvarious of Kazak embroiderer Hatma Enedu and Lu Fuying, an inheritor of Su Xiuvarious of Suxiu embroiderySOUNDBITE 1(Chinese): HATMA ENEDU, Kazak embroidererSOUNDBITE 2(Chinese): LU FUYING, Suxiu embroiderervarious of Kazak embroiderer Hatma Enedu and Lu Fuying, an inheritor of Su Xiu STORYLINE: A Kazak embroiderer from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been improving her work by learning Su Xiu (Suzhou Embroidery), one of the four major Chinese embroidery styles. The 45-year-old Hatma Enedu met with Lu Fuying, an inheritor of Su Xiu, while taking part in an embroidery training course in 2019 in east China's Jiangsu Province. Two years later, Enedu again got in touch with Lu again and came under Lu's tutorship. Enedu believed that the complex needlework of Su Xiu is quite inspiring.

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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Jessica Tandy Film: Driving Miss Daisy (USA 1989) Director: Bruce Beresford 13 December 1989 Date: 13 December 1989

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FEATURE: Spring is time for needlework for many Japanese mothers

A woman and her children browse fabrics for making bags for use at schools, at a store of Yuzawaya selling handicraft materials in Tokyo's Kichijoji district on March 19, 2016. Yuzawaya offers 10 types of made-to-order fabric bags and other school-use items for children as an increasing number of mothers find it difficult to make them, required by nursery and elementary schools, by hand at home. A stand at left in the background says, "We accept orders" for goods related to children's school entrance in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Spring is time for needlework for many Japanese mothers

Nami Uchiyama, a 39-year-old graphic designer in Tokyo, uses a sewing machine to make a fabric bag for her son at her home on March 14, 2016, before he enters elementary school in April. Every year as cherry blossoms bloom, mothers of young children across Japan toil until late at night to sew fabric bags as many Japanese nursery and elementary schools require parents to prepare a number of items, often difficult to purchase, for use by their children at the schools. There remains social pressure for mothers to make them by hand, while fathers are generally not expected to do the needlework. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women sewing clothes

Two women are sewing kimono. Needlework was considered an important and requisite skill for women. A sewing box is placed beside each woman.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐47‐0]

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A woman doing needlework

Needle work is done in a living room arranged for the summer season. A teapot on a tray and a lacquerware sewing kit are visible. The bamboo partition and rice straw mat create a cool atmosphere.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐41‐0]