Haberdashery Designs
We are a needle art design company and local needlework shop located in the beautiful and peaceful Pacific Northwest. Here we like to create unique and contemporary cross-stitch designs that are fun, colorful, and whimsical.
Our personal style features a variety of specialty stitches using a variety of fibers and fabrics. Much thought, time, and love has gone into our original designs.
We hope you like what you see and that you will ask your local needle work shop to look us up. As always, a big thank you to all stitchers who have purchased our patterns and enjoy them as much as we do.
We hope you have a nice time here. Please stop in again, we are always updating our site!
Haberdashery History
For a little bit of history, the word "Haberdashery" comes from our past.
Shops with this name were usually in Europe, especially Britain.
:: hab · er · dash · er : n.
1. [Brit] a dealer in various small articles such as ribbons, thread, buttons, zippers and needles - a men's outfitter
:: hab · er · dash · er · y : n.
1. things sold by a haberdasher
2. a haberdasher's shop or the items sold therein are called haberdashery
According to Wikipedia, "the word 'Haberdashery' appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Haberdashers were initially peddlers, sellers of small wares such as needles, buttons, etc.
The word could also derive from the Icelandic haprtask "peddlers' wares" or the sack in which the peddler carried them. In this sense, a haberdasher (Scandinavian name) would be very close to a mercer (French name). A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding". Saint Louis IX, the King of France 1226-1270, is the patron saint of haberdashers." |
