Abstract: A mounting frame for a completed tapestry wherein the frame is composed of pieces each having a slide surface in a common plane, and a surface at right angles to the slide surface and over which the tapestry is adapted to be stretched and teeth means arranged in an array along the piece, and not on the slide surface, for hooked-up engagement with the tapestry for use in uniformly stretching and in holding a stretched tapestry in a display condition without wrinkles or buckles.

Abstract: An improved needle having a pointed end and a pusher end with an eye adjacent the pusher end and wherein the pusher end zone is provided with a rounded nose portion to distribute pressure in sewing over a larger surface of a user's finger and wherein the nose portion is of no greater diameter than the maximum cross sectional area of the needle and wherein the nose portion may define a recess and include a plug captivated in the recess.