embroidery
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"It shows what collaboration can achieve," Burnham told Macron on Thursday, saying France's loan to Britain of the almost thousand-year-old embroidery was a "huge personal gesture of goodwill, trust and friendship".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 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
The British Museum is preparing to put the Bayeux Tapestry on display, after the 70m-long 11th Century embroidery was brought to London from northern France last week.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
At Vollpension cafe in Vienna’s lively Wieden district, guests are welcomed by a silver-haired hostess who seats them around coffee tables in a room laden with embroidery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Her gown is white, covered in what to Bailey looks like looping black embroidery, but as he walks closer he sees that the black marks are actually words written across the fabric.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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
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
This short poncho-like mantle, made from a blanket the color of faded terra cotta, whose embroideries form a veritable encyclopedia of the stuff of everyday living.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
That means choosing the right colours, embroideries for gowns, non-crease fabrics and ensuring necklines, sleeves and hemlines are the correct length.
From Reuters ● May 18, 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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