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Article: A needlepoint champ takes a classical turn
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 1993
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Copyright informationCopyright 1993 The Boston Globe. (Hide copyright information)
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If you've ever wondered why people take up needlepoint, spend an
hour or two with Despina Pantos, winner of the best in show award
last year when the Women's Educational and Industrial Union revived
its needlework exhibition. Not one to do things by halves -- "I love
a project" -- Pantos took a pretty but pallidly upholstered Victorian
armchair and worked a bold floral pattern for back, seat and rear.
Unable to find decorative trim she liked, she designed her own and
stitched it in petit point, which is needlepoint in miniature.
What will Pantos do for an encore?
Nothing less than a carpet or runner based on the famed marble
frieze of horsemen from the Parthenon, but in the colors they ...
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