stitchery

How to use stitchery in a sentence

• The smock, or shift, was a high garment with long sleeves, often embroidered with black stitchery.

  Chaucer for Children | Mrs. H. R. Haweis

• In any case, work over stitchery is more durable than over loose padding such as cotton wool.

  Art in Needlework | Lewis F. Day

• All that concerns them on this last-named account will be found in the section devoted to stitchery.

  Samplers and Tapestry Embroideries | Marcus Bourne Huish

• We do not, nowadays, spend long hours bending over fine stitchery that is destined for no really useful purpose.

  Needlework Economies | Various

• The black silk outline stitchery or linen lasted well through the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

  Chats on Old Lace and Needlework | Emily Leigh Lowes