Art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn.
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Examples for "embroidery "
Examples for "embroidery "
1 The innocent embroidery sampler has developed a serious attitude in recent years.
2 He smoked contemplatively; she stitched at the inevitable embroidery of the period.
3 Practically the same thing went on in the lace and embroidery departments.
4 All the jewels of the sea worked in with embroidery adorned them.
5 So are the tattoo and embroidery designs described in a previous chapter.
1 The latter fact might lead the observer to conclude that the art of embroidery and cloth decoration originated outside the tribe.
1 I would've sat embroidering poorly by candlelight, thinking impure thoughts about wenches.
2 Majestic shoulders also dominated the daytime looks along with colorful jewel embroidering .
3 Grace took out of her bag a guest towel she was embroidering .
4 There I saw four and twenty damsels, embroidering satin at a window.
5 He awoke to see someone sitting in a patch of moonlight, embroidering .
6 Mrs. Gregory sat near the group, silently embroidering in white silk.
7 Maria had a school-book in her hand, and Ida was embroidering .
8 Elsie was seated by the stove, embroidering a pair of moccasins.
9 And there I saw four and twenty damsels, embroidering satin at a window.
10 She was fond of fancy-work, and was embroidering a silk gown for herself.
11 Her fingers had left off embroidering brown birds on drab linen.
12 So he went on thinking, and Mrs. Reffold went on embroidering .
13 Thorhild's women laid aside their embroidering for the task of sail-making.
14 Mrs. Holt had dropped the carriage-blanket she was embroidering for her daughter's baby.
15 But speak-to-me-only-with-thine-eyes isn't a really reliable reason for embroidering doilies and hemstitching tablecloths.
16 A cousin of mine -a tedious, embroidering sort of girl.
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