For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in the ''place of stones''--their village in the foothills of the Coastal Range between Santiago and Concepcion. Their work stands today among the most evocative of Chilean arts, as evocative as the story of how they came together at a crucial moment in Chile's history. Amid the political upheaval of 1971, stitchery expert Carmen Benavente returned to her native Santiago to find much of her family's farmland expropriated and resentment fomenting against former landowners. ''Death to Benavente'' she saw painted on one wall as she drove through the streets. Despite her family's fear for her safety, Benavente was determined to bridge alienation, to reach out to the families she'd grown up among. Going door to door on foot, she offered to teach the women of Ninhue wool embroidery, a nontraditional art. What followed is the story of a remarkable group of women empowered creatively and economically...

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