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
A professional hand embroiderer has been commissioned to design gold embroidery onto a rare Napoleonic military jacket.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2022
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
I remember that some of my grandmother's "huz-ifs" still held threads of different colored crewels wound on bits of cardboard, and any embroiderer might envy the convenience of such holders.
From The Development of Embroidery in America by Wheeler, Candace
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
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
Christine Riley, who trained at the Royal School of Needlework, was originally brought in to give advice to the embroiderers, but soon became part of the team.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2021
God gave thee gracious ministers And all their work who plait and weave: The cunning of embroiderers That sew the pillow to the sleeve, And likeness of all things that live.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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