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embroidery

[em-broi-duh-ree, -dree] / ɛmˈbrɔɪ də ri, -dri /


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Former mill worker Linda McTigue worked in the building when she was 17 years old and worked in a department that made embroidery silk yarn.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

She hosts monthly arts and crafts workshops including activities like scrapbooking, punch needle embroidery and clay art.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

Over the next 13 months, Buechel joined more Ace Camps trips: to Eswatini to learn batik and basketweaving, and Portugal to study embroidery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

With women banned from most jobs in Afghanistan, an embroidery boutique run by 22-year-old Rahima Alavi is a surprising and treasured sight in Bamiyan.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Rebeca's old friends, among them four of the Moscote sisters who were still single, once more took up the sessions of embroidery that had been interrupted years before on the porch with the begonias.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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