embroiderer
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embroiderers
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In the country's center, in the village of San Isidro Buen Progreso, lives another embroiderer whose services the president has enlisted.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
The embroiderer then cut the satin ribbons at precise angles to correspond with the pattern and secured the ribbons onto the fabric by hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
For our part, we are helped by labels by Young Yang Chung, New York-based embroiderer and textile scholar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2018
But you try and make sure you have the crew you need specifically for each character: The embroiderer, and so on.
From Time ● Jul. 14, 2017
He himself wears a velvet waistcoat, on which he has caused golden pelicans to be embroidered by William Courtenay, a London embroiderer.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
Couture brands like Christian Dior, Prada and Gucci all have a secret weapon: the embroiderers at this Mumbai atelier, who are keeping over 5,000 years of cultural heritage alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Rather, she supports "the weavers, the embroiderers, all those who use backstrap looms in our country -- mostly women -- who are a source of national pride," the 63-year-old recently told journalists.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
In a smaller room nearby, a dozen or so embroiderers gathered for their 5 p.m. prayer, surrounded by glass jars of beads and hand-beaten metal sequins.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
And there was less substantive coverage by a reporter smitten with the secretary of the French embroiderers union, Georgette Bouillot, who, according to the reporter, led Paris embroiderers on strikes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2021
It is almost a depressing sight to watch these embroiderers at work—so different are they from the happy boisterous metal-workers talking and laughing amid the clanging of their little hammers.
From Japan A Record in Colour by Dorothy Menpes
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