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stitchery

American  
[stich-uh-ree] / ˈstɪtʃ ə ri /

noun

  1. needlework.


stitchery British  
/ ˈstɪtʃərɪ /

noun

  1. needlework, esp modern embroidery

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of stitchery

First recorded in 1600–10; stitch + -ery

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At the same time, Kernel attends to the fine stitchery of fan maintenance by following the viewers through social media, and scouting for products, like that backpack, that can bind them to a film.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2015

The solution: camisoles, bodysuits and bustiers, all fashioned in dainty pointelle work, meticulously engineered stitchery providing the structure.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2015

The group exhibition, at VisArts’s Kaplan Gallery, includes pieces that take stitchery to the street and even onto CNN.

From Washington Post

By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I’d collect the smashed pottery and the smashed meat pasties and grind them into all my perfect stitchery.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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