embroidery
broidery old use

People would come from all over to buy her embroidery.

Embroidery, too, has always been considered a form of writing.

It was a beautiful one, great love went into the embroidery.

There have been great changes in church embroidery since the last war.

At one time the ladies of the area did all the embroidery themselves.

This time last week they had been together, he painting, she working at her embroidery.

She picked up her embroidery, only to put it down after a few minutes.

The rest was embroidery, really meant for a different audience.

Two years later the company opened its own embroidery shop.

Every cloak he could see had at least a little embroidery.

Embroidery in the service of truth, the family said, was not a lie.

"You wrote embroidery because there was a message in it."

I only came back to get some embroidery, because we found the sun too hot for driving.

By 1900, small embroidery businesses were common in the village.

Still, she had allowed the young fellow his embroidery; a point to remember.

Now I know that the embroidery was the crest of our house.

Nodded over my embroidery and his wine, one either side the fire.

"She did that in 1966, and she's still doing embroidery."

That was also the place where domestic science and embroidery were taught.

Union City had the opportunities offered by the embroidery industry.

Gold can be made into thread and used in embroidery.

The only embroidery on the front is below the neck opening.

This led to a boom in embroidery, particularly between 1880 and 1890.

A green coat with gold embroidery went to the floor.

I did all the embroidery work on the faces when they were still flat.

This ranged from jewelry to broidery to the craft of language.

She wore a rose and amber dress, With broidery of old gold.

"I was at my broidery," Rosemund said, looking to her mother for support.

"I know the broidery on that dress.

The 'broidery of her tabard was carefully and intricately wrought.

"Yes," he answered, "singing with your maids at your broidery.

It was just diplomatic em- broidery, and Jack let his eyes do the work while his ears filtered out the noise.

"Was the broidery that of stars, silver stars," exclaimed Adrian, "with a sun in the centre?"

Get thee to thy broidery, for there thou may'st excel.' "

See, thy brave mantle of triple-pile and golden broidery will not save thee from the gavocciolo.

An unimaginable tapestry bedight with incredible broidery, the Metal People draped the vast cup.

From the coronal a veil of gilt thread hung round neck and shoulders, over the stiff gold broidery of her gown.

One may set 'broidery on silk so as to make one wish to pluck the stitched flowers and listen to the singing of the birds she has wrought.

But they added much to his teaching and delighted much in tongues and alphabets and in the figures of broidery, of drawing and carving.

With colours more, groundwork or broidery Never in cloth did Tartars make nor Turks, Nor were such tissues by Arachne laid.

Through curtains of broidery the afternoon sun beat hotly into the small chamber; beams glanced from the polished surfaces and scintillated into rainbow hues as they reflected askew.

Our household made a fine array, the men all in their green livery-coats and the maids wearing vests with the Scorpy arms catching the sun's rays in gold-touched broidery.

"Ye buy 'nough plain ribbon t' cover th' places where the 'broidery was picked out, an' wider than' the 'broidery was.

The King looked formidable at first glance, dark, powerful and grim, with body armor like the delicate, silvery scales of fish, beneath a blue-black surcoat whorled with endless silver em- broidery.

Your clothes, your hose, your broidery, Your linen that the snow surpasses, Or ere they're worn, off, off they fly, 'Tis all to taverns and to lasses!

She wore a robe of pleasant green overworked with silver, and among the twists of that silver 'broidery were set small milky gems, which a net of the same jewels confined her hair.

Stiff, strange, and quaintly coloured As the broidery of Bayeux The England of that dawn remains, And this of Alfred and the Danes Seems like the tales a whole tribe feigns Too English to be true.

In the afternoon she complained of a headache, and thought the air would do her good, if she might walk in the garden, and since Madlen was required to work on a gown of Agnes's in which the silver broidery was fraying, and needed expert repair, she was allowed to go unescorted.

The grass and trees had assumed the fresh enamel of a mediaeval May; the turf was figured with little blossoms of azure and white and yellow, like an ornate broidery; and there was a pebbly stream that murmured beside the way, as if the voices of undines were parleying deliciously beneath its waters.