embroidery
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In the middle of enthusing about a cross-stitch embroidery project, she says, “Don’t roll your eyes at me!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
For its cross-Channel journey, the tapestry has been "folded up like a curtain" and "put in a very, very high-tech container" with climate and vibration controls to protect the delicate embroidery.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
I’ve seen it on many products, in many different presentations — pink-glitter bubble letters on a sticker, loopy black cursive on a tote bag, industrial embroidery on a hat.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
He had flirted with the idea of buying a franchise for years, but a local opportunity caught his and his girlfriend’s eye: a 30-year-old screen-printing and embroidery shop that had been battered by the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
But if you do not find solace there, perhaps you should take up embroidery.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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Also designed by Hartnell, the Queen's 1953 Coronation dress was made from silk produced in Kent and features gold bugle beads, diamantés and pearls in exquisitely designed embroideries.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
Detailed embroideries, although masterfully crafted, occasionally strayed into whimsicality.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Famed mass placard displays in stadiums often feature wartime imagery, and foreign tourists can buy posters and embroideries of soldiers and partisans in Pyongyang.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Throughout an era dominated by oppressive minimalism, Sabyasachi’s clothes remained refreshingly maximalist, a celebration of Indian decorative arts, a menagerie of interlocking embroideries entirely outside Western trends.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
She was a Swede, and she let Laura and Mary look at the pretty things she had brought from Sweden—laces, and colored embroideries, and china.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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