needlewoman

How to use needlewoman in a sentence

• Encarnacian was a needlewoman too; she was a great, strong, bouncing girl with a vulgar face.

  The Fourth Estate, vol.1 | Armando Palacio Valds

• Owing to the clumsiness of her wooden fingers, the woman of the south was a poor needlewoman, but was a fine dancer.

  A Treasury of Eskimo Tales | Clara Kern Bayliss

• Neither was I very much downcast at my failures in this field; I was not an ambitious needlewoman.

  The Promised Land | Mary Antin

• This is not the moment to urge upon the needlewoman the study of design, but to urge upon the designer the study of stitches.

  Art in Needlework | Lewis F. Day

• The needlewoman has preferred to sew over the raw edges of the stuff, and give us a perfect piece of Fretwork in linen.

  Art in Needlework | Lewis F. Day