To the women who stitched for us—

We think of you often—though we may never know your names.

Your hands moved with patience, with care, with a quiet devotion to beauty that asked for no audience. Thread by thread, you created something lasting, something intimate—pieces of art meant to live, to be held, to be seen up close, to exist as an expression of your own moment in time.

What you could not have known is that your work would travel.

Decades later, your needlepoints would be found again—rediscovered, reimagined, and brought into a new life. That what you made would not fade, but evolve. That your colors, your choices, your hours of attention would become part of something worn, cherished and carried forward.

Your work is not just preserved—it’s loved. It is chosen again. It is given a new story without ever losing its original soul. And through it, you are remembered—not as anonymous hands, but as creators whose beauty endures.

With deep gratitude,

Amy Cohen, Founder of COVETED THREADS and all the remarkable women who are beginning their NEXT CHAPTER