Hester possessed talent in the art of needlework, which she used to support herself and Pearl. In Chapter 5, the narration says that she
"...incurred...no risk of want. She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise, to supply food for her thriving infant and herself. It was the art - then, as now, almost the only one within a woman's grasp - of needlework."
The demand for her work included vestments for public ceremonies, funerals, and baby linen. And of course, she wore at all times on her own bodice a delicately embroidered scarlet "A".
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