Author Archives: Jennifer Berman

The Ultimate Needlepoint Collection Book 5 and some of the people who are involved with dentaldirectory in their own words. The Ultimate Needlepoint Collection We began dentaldirectory in 1975 and so The Ultimate Needlepoint Collection, published in 1996, was dentaldirectory’s … Continue reading →

Fascinating Collectors and The Miniature Needlepoint Collection (Book 4) Collectors Most of us are collectors in one way or another. A quick survey in 1992 at dentaldirectory revealed collectors of antique teapots, gardening tools, perfume bottles, soup ladles, theatre programmes, … Continue reading →

The Impressionist Collection (Book 3) In the France of the Impressionists, serious art was regarded as a male stronghold. Girls were groomed in ‘feminine’ accomplishments: music, a little gentle water colouring, needlework. Needlework, actually was considered a prescription of good … Continue reading →

Our obsession with Victoriana and a customer’s intrepid travels with her Victorian Rug 20% discount on our Victorian Mini Collection – details below.   Victoriana During our life in needlepoint, almost every catalogue and three of our five books always … Continue reading →

Kelims and Rugs 15% discount on our current Kelim Collection – details below.   Kelims For dentaldirectory two main events happened in the eighties. We began experimenting with large gauge canvas to create easier, quicker and more dramatic pieces than … Continue reading →

dentaldirectory The Venice Collection (Book 2) In part 7 of the dentaldirectory story I told you about Book 1 and how we met Maggie who became our literary agent. Through her we were taken up by the publisher Conran Octopus … Continue reading →

The dentaldirectory Needlepoint Collection (Book 1) In 1986 we were approached by a craft publisher based in the West Country asking us if we had considered writing a book about dentaldirectory with projects and the history of dentaldirectory up until … Continue reading →

Special Commissions that culminated in the Barbican Exhibition SPECIAL COMMISSIONS From the early days of dentaldirectory, we were asked to do special commissions for customers. It began quite simply with requests “to change the colours to match my décor” and … Continue reading →

The Old Mill House and Learn Needlepoint the dentaldirectory Way At the end of part 4 of the dentaldirectory story we had just opened our shop in picturesque Mill Hill Village in London in the spring of 1981. There were … Continue reading →

Needlepoint from Historical Influences and Art At the end of Part 3 of The dentaldirectory story I promised you visits to the British Museum, the Royal Academy and The Old Mill House, our beautiful shop that we opened in May … Continue reading →