- ... that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris?
- ... that the tragic romance of Tristan and Iseult is the subject matter of the Tristan Quilt, a rare survival of medieval trapunto quilting?
- ...that both scutching and heckling are steps in the process of turning flax into linen?