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Stitchery   Listen
Stitchery

noun
1.
Needlework on which you are working with needle and thread.  Synonym: sewing.






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"Stitchery" Quotes from Famous Books



... to her head, and unpinned a coil of her heavy hair, and spread it over her breast and looked at it. Yes, the silver was there, too much and too soon. But there was less silver than black. It was still time's stitchery, not his fabric. The man who was not her boy need never have seen her before to know that once her hair had been black. This was worse than forgetfulness in him; it was misremembrance. She pulled at the silver hairs passionately as though ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon

... continually mention of such work by nuns and ladies.[323] In England it was especially called "nuns' work" (plate 42). There is a great survival of this stitchery in Italy amongst the peasantry. They have always adorned their smocks and aprons, and their linen head-coverings, and the borders of sheets for great occasions, with patterns in "flat stitches," "cut stitches," and "drawn work." ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford



Words linked to "Stitchery" :   needle, needlework, binding, applique, needlecraft, stitch, patch, darn, patchwork, gather, gathering, sewing, mend



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