The CRVC Library is maintained at Thistle Needleworks, 1005 Hebron Avenue (Addison Village Shops), Glastonbury, Connecticut. The library has 135 books and 4 VHS videos that are available for CRVC members to browse or borrow.

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We have received a number of donations to our library recently and, after review with the CRVC board, the following titles were added to the CRVC library:

Wilson: The Craft of Silk and Gold Thread Embroidery and Stumpwork
Lane: Chinese Rugs Designed for Needlepoint
Litchfield Historical Society: To Ornament Their Minds
Antiques magazine, April 1975 (contains a long article about the Connecticut Historical Society, including the embroideries in their collection)
Ricami d'Assisi, album I

Although these are all older titles, they are pertinent to embroideries seeing a revival in the 21st century and/or embroidery here in Connecticut.

A previous addition to the CRVC library was significant because of the circumstance of its acquisition. Stumpwork Embroidery: A Collection of Fruits, Flowers and Insects for Contemporary Raised Embroidery by Jane Nicholas. This book is the gift of an anonymous CRVC member donor in honor of five past presidents of the chapter -- Peg Lunt, Muriel Baker, Anne Norton, Cynthia Tribelhorn, and Rosemary Cornelius. This title was chosen because all of these talented embroiderers were known first for their skill and love of surface embroidery.

CRVC members are encouraged to take advantage of the library. Books may be borrowed by visiting the library and signing them out using the forms in the sign-out/in binder, or by mail by contacting the chapter librarian Judie Solomon at ThisNeedle@aol.com or 860-633-8503.