Meanings of stitchery in English

She looked away at the stitchery on the tent wall beside her.

What wilt thou say to me for such a piece of stitchery?

The black silk outline stitchery on linen lasted well through the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Her ladies and the nuns also, she encouraged in all elegant handicrafts-silk-embroidery ,lace-making ,andother stitchery.

Not Constance's specially provided napkins could hide that wealth and profusion of white lace and stitchery.

It was still time's stitchery, not his fabric.

Around the outstretched quilt a dozen quilters could sit, running the whole together with fanciful set designs of stitchery.

Mrs. Craigh-Higgs, sitting with her stitchery at the opposite side of the grate fire, went instantly taut.. View Article

Miss Francina always claimed reading in the dark would ruin my eyes sure as stitchery, and she was probably right.

And so in regard to such gifts as music, painting, acting, mechanics, stitchery; even such simple things as reading and writing.

All the panels were decorated with elaborate stitchery or beadwork or painting, and the floor had been covered with thick furs.

There was his mother's sweet pale face under the white coif, her busy fingers completing a last bit of stitchery for him.

In fact, it is the business of the successful embroiderer to know as much about design as she must about stitchery and color.

Another phase of the same stitchery was working cotton and linen garments, hangings and quilts in a kind of quilted pattern with yellow silk.

A large part of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century was a period of remarkable skill in all kinds of stitchery.

"I suppose that might work," she said doubtfully, peering at her cursed stitchery.