Part One of an article on American colonial needlework from the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, drawing on probate records and inventories from the 17th and early 18th centuries. It discusses turkey work, crewel embroidery, petit point (tent stitch), bed hangings, samplers, stumpwork pictures and Hungarian point chair seats. Illustrated with plates of embroidered bedspreads, bed hangings, a sampler, Mary Bulman's 1745 hangings from Old York Jail and a Wethersfield chair seat.