Craft of creating or decorating objects using needle and thread.
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Examples for "needlework "
1 By 1846 instruction in needlework had been begun in earnest in England.
2 Mrs. Rothesay was sitting in the sunshine, engaged in some delicate needlework .
3 Presently she came in, bringing some needlework ; Rosie and Walter with her.
4 Rachael entered the library with a piece of needlework in her hand.
5 She shall be brought unto the King in a vesture of needlework .
1 The handwork is all over, for the canner will do the rest.
2 The children reverted to free-running handwork , often improvising as they went.
3 The things with ribbon and handwork and yards and yards of real lace.
4 Bassett thought he saw the handwork of some enterprising journalist, and smiled grimly.
5 She taught me to embroider and to do other fine handwork .
1 She possessed an art that sufficed to supply food for her thriving infant and herself - the art of needlework .
2 Normally she disdained the homely art of needlework , but as a daughter of the Ice People she was skilled in it nevertheless.
3 One can imagine that the effect of them in social life was to add greatly to the vogue of the art of needlework .
4 These two constellations are worshipped principally by women, that they may gain cunning in the arts of needlework and making of fancy flowers.
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