embroidery
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"It feels like you're in the battlefield," he added, praising the "real sense of movement" in the embroidery.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
However, the British Museum said the embroidery was "virtually unchanged" with thread breaks, measuring a few millimetres at most, not considered significant damage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
She was thronged by French and British media as she viewed the 11th Century embroidery, along with the chair of the British Museum, the former Chancellor George Osborne.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Ba had insisted that Ma teach me embroidery, and I was working on a pillow casing, but exquisite wouldn’t be how I described my needlework.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
Halfway between the capital and the Belarusian border, I had to contort my body through twisted studs to enter the leveled Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, its statuary now pitted, its embroideries scorched.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 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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