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NANthology is the quarterly newsletter of the National Academy of Needleart. Every issue contains a message from the Director of Education and news about NAN. In addition to our news, we frequently publish interesting articles about various areas of the needle arts. We're happy to share some of these articles with you. We'll be adding new articles regularly, so check back often to see what's new.

From the Winter 2010

An Artist's Statement...but

From the Winter 2009

One Step After Another

From the Fall 2008

The Exemplary

From the Spring 2007 Issue
- Why Get Certified?
From the Autumn 2006 Issue
- Original
From the Summer 2006 Issue
- Creative Block: What is it and How Do I Get Past It?
- Book Review
  - A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield
From the Spring 2006 Issue
- Selecting a Scissors
From the Winter 2006 Issue
- Honors
- Packing The Light Fantastic
- Book Review
  - Preserving Textiles: A Guide for the Nonspecialist
From the Autumn 2005 Issue
- We May have to Make a Substitution
- Book Review
  - Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: the power of dialogue in educating adults by Jane Vella
From the Summer 2005 Issue
- Parsing the Artist's Statement
From the Spring 2005 Issue
- Mary K. Campbell's Master Judge Research: Judging Bobbin Lace
- Book Review
  - Threads of Light--Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glen Ketchum
From the Winter 2005 Issue
- Book Review
  - Color: A Course In Mastering The Art Of Mixing Colors
From the Summer 2004 Issue
- What is technique, and why are we so worried about it?
- Book Review
  - Teaching Needlecraft, A Handbook for the Beginning Instructor by Rosemary Cornelius, Peg Doffek and Sue Hardy
From the Spring 2004 Issue
- Embroideries in a Cornfield?
From the Winter 2004 Issue
- You Can Say that Again by Dolores Andrew
From the Autumn 2003 Issue

Creativity
Book Review
- The Art of Teaching Craft by Joyce Spencer & Deborah Kneen
What Not to Do by Gail Sirna

From the Autumn 2002 Issue
- The Spirit of Teaching (A Journey)
- More Than They See
From the Summer 2002 Issue
- Needlework as Meditation
- Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil
- Your Piece or Mine
- Why Do I Need A Critique
- Creativity and the Needleartist by Dolores Andrew
From the Fall 2001 Issue
- Book Reviews
  - Color Play by Joen Wolfrom
  - Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: the Power of Dialogue in Educating by Jane Vella
- Judge Not...
From the Winter 2001 Issue
- Book Reviews
  - Embroidery and Colour by Constance Howard
  - Designing with Pattern by Jan Messent
From the Autumn 2000 Issue
- The Traveling Collector
- Partnership Is Better
From the Summer 2000 Issue
- The Genesis of Collections
- Book Reviews
  - Picture This -- Perception and Composition by Molly Bang
  - Design Sources for Embroidery by Muriel Best and Vicky Lugg
From the Spring 2000 Issue
- From a Judge's Journal
- Collections on Loan, Part III
From the Fall 1999 Issue
- Chi Whiz
- The Artist's Statement
- Collections on Loan, Part II
From the Summer 1999 Issue
- From a Judge's Journal
- Collections on Loan, Part I
- Book Reviews
  - Colour on Paper and Fabric: A Wealth of Techniques for Applying Colour by Ruth Issett
  - Fabulous Fabrics of the 50's (And Other Terrific Textiles of the 20's, 30's, and 40's) by Gideon Bosken, Michele Mancici & John Gramstad
From the Spring 1999 Issue
- From Timid to Intrepid: All It Takes is Practice
- The Home of the NAN Collection
- Book Review
  - Creative Embroidery Techniques Using Color Through Gold by Daphne J. Ashby & Jackie Woolsey

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