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Lengthen skirts outgrown by insets of embroidery or contrasting color.
Here the women bring their sewing or embroidery, and chat.
Sewing and white embroidery do not earn thirty sous a day.
Already Mary could do quite nice embroidery and exquisite plain sewing.
The wet is of linen, while the embroidery is of woolen.
I've done a lot of embroidery, but scarcely any plain sewing.
The embroidery about the neck of her Indian robe is of pearls.
She retreated to the verandah after dinner, with her embroidery.
The pulpits and confessionals were surrounded by swords and embroidery.
The old Indian embroideries in leather are generally applied one on another.
Saying this, the confiding girl sat down to her embroidery.
For embroideries made under Roman influence we must again look to Egypt.
I liked the embroidery, but the texture was disagreeable, repugnant.
She put away her embroidery and walked the floor restlessly.
She did fine needlework and intricate embroidery, and worked tapestry.
Sometimes an embroidery of needlework was attached to it as an ornament.
White tunic trimmed with red figured cloth to simulate oriental embroidery.
A long strip of exquisitely wrought embroidery lay folded on top.
Embroidery was laid aside; instead, socks were knit and bandages prepared.
The walls were hung with rare Chinese embroideries and delicately-tinted prints.
Ruffles of coarse embroidery set stiffly away from her thin wrists.
The laws regulating the importation of embroidery are still more stringent.
The curtains were frequently adorned with Indian embroidery or picture writing.
Instruction in needlework is given, both in plain sewing and embroidery.
The mother thereafter supported herself and her son sewing embroideries.
It is made of linen entirely covered with embroidery in floss silk.
The colors, carnation and silver, enriched with embroidery and lace.
Elaborate embroidery decorates the traditional costumes of both men and women.
What you see on the side there is not embroidery, it is darning.
The latter place is noted, too, for its patchwork and embroidery.
Their roughness and rudeness might be mitigated by coverings of embroidery.
Bands of narrow embroidery decorate the waist and the skirt also.
Krupp's act was a caprice, a piece of embroidery, charming and unnecessary.
Overcast stitch in embroidery is practically a very short raised satin stitch.
Every species of animal, bird and butterfly were represented in rare embroidery.
The artisan's wife and daughter busied themselves at their trade of embroidery.
She came rustling into the room with her embroidery in her hand.
Ellen looked up from some embroidery, in which she was busily engaged.
They omit sewing, which is too difficult, and embroidery, which is impossible.
Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
The silken thinness of her gown was weighted with silver embroideries.
Jewels, embroidery and heavy brocades would detract nothing from your charms.
These trousers are often made of very pretty pieces of embroidery joined together.
All were anxious to be pretty fellows, and they wore embroidery and rouge.
This improvised wooden structure was covered with carpets and costly embroideries.
No occupation conduces more to quiet and pleasant thought than that of embroidery.
I trimmed it with the embroidery from my last set of petticoats.
All the jewels of the sea worked in with embroidery adorned them.
The ethics, in his eyes, were only the groundwork for poetical embroidery.
The Dowager looked up from her placid embroidery and smiled to Plush.
And, the fourth day, he told, with some embroidery, of Forsythe's polygamy.
Over the low mantelpiece was framed a long, narrow piece of exquisite embroidery.
She had all the silk thread and embroidery floss she needed.
I went, one frosty autumn day, to get a pattern for silk embroidery.
When he narrates it, he trims it up with all kinds of embroidery.
There ensued a pause, during which the stitches of embroidery were taken slowly.
Much embroidery for ecclesiastical purposes has been executed in Belgium of late years.
He tiptoed about, now looking at a picture, and now fingering an embroidery.
Both robe and shawl are elaborately carved with patterns in imitation of embroidery.
She occupied herself with embroideries, which were said to be very skillfully executed.
Edges of ruffles and embroidery should also be touched up on the photograph.
He has thrown a pall of gorgeous embroidery over the bloody hearse of Mary.
The walls were covered with Chinese silk and heavy panels of embroidery.
The upper vest was, like the under one, richly adorned with embroidery.
Wool and cotton, gums and saffron from Aleppo, and fine silk embroidery.
The embroidery of the pavilions blends with the spots of the leopards.
She learned something of the French language, of domestic science, and embroidery.
Ruffles of elaborate embroidery and snowy whiteness adorned his wrists and bosom.
The pall was of velvet with a gold fringe and gold embroidery.
We walk over them, we walk over carved ivories, over pearls and embroideries galore.
The robe itself is studded with gold embroidery and trimmed with ermine.
Nanny came home with her embroidery, and sat down with her needlework.
Others exhibited for sale clocks, cheap embroidery, tinsel jewelry, or common pottery.
All were in state liveries of green, stiff with lace and embroideries in silver.
She finds her coughing feebly and nearly bent double over her embroidery.
Her rude jewels, her belt, her embroideries, sparkled brightly in the firelight.
His azure-hued costume was magnificent in its profusion of embroidery and precious stones.
Some keep furniture shops, some are decorators, some are dressmakers, some make or sell embroidery.
It is probably among the best examples of monochrome embroidery America has produced.
In old embroideries, heraldic devices may be seen successfully treated in this way.
Flowers, butterflies and birds are represented in Chinese embroidery, executed in this manner.
Embossing in needlework is effected by embroidery over figures padded with wool felt.
Religion is being tested, stripped of sham and embroidery, and reduced to reality.
He was clad in fine embroidery and decorated with medals of all nations.
Above this ruffle was a pretty band of hand embroidery in orange-colored silk.
The curtains of the bed were often of rich material adorned with embroidery.
I laid down my useless embroidery and listlessly drew up to the table.
It is clearly from needlework, embroidery, or tapestry that this style is borrowed.
Julia's was cream satin and gold embroidery, and she wore purple orchids.
Her delicate neck rubbed against his cloth doublet with its rough embroideries.
Then come the rooms for cutting and sewing, and the embroidery rooms.
Their recital enlivened the women's unnumbered hours of spinning, weaving, and embroidery.
The principal exports are wine, sugar, embroidery, vegetables, fruits and wicker goods.
Forty footmen were decorated with golden collars, and other forty with embroidery.
Homespun linen furnished her bed, native embroideries were spread over every piece of furniture.
This fascinating embroidery of trees is more especially observable in glancing over North Adelaide.
The French white or laid embroidery is an especial application of the satin stitch.
The sash of purple with gold embroidery bristled with pistols and daggers.
The plaits for length, the embroidery for interest, the tie for color.
She looked down, and picked at the dim embroideries that covered the divan.