Embroideresses

Word EMBROIDERESSES
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As with most amateur embroideresses, they had either stitched through a paper pattern, forcing them to use it only once, or had drawn their patterns inaccurately on the fabric itself when the fabric was too dark or thick to use as tracing paper. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

In the "Book of Rules" by Etienne Boileau, governing the "Embroiderers and embroideresses of the City of Paris," one of the chief laws was that no work should be permitted in the evening, "because the work of the night cannot be so good or so satisfactory as that accomplished in the day." ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)

Four embroideresses worked on it for three years and three-quarters, and it seems to have cost a sum equal to about £3000 of our money. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)

In Paris, in the year 1295, there were ninety-three embroiderers and embroideresses registered as belonging to the trade. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)

From that time down to the middle of the sixteenth century there was a constant demand for the work of the skilled embroideresses, and this section of art, so particularly suitable to ecclesiastical purposes, was one of perennial richness. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It was sometimes used in conjunction with painting, the faces of a family group being done in water color upon cardboard by professional painters who were members of the art guild, who wandered from one social circle to another, supplying the wants of embroideresses ambitious of distinction in their accomplishments. ❋ Candace Wheeler (1875)

Many of them were quite celebrated, so renowned for their skilful workmanship that talented embroideresses took the trouble to come to Lourdes on purpose to examine them. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

So we need hardly say it became to the mother a thing to be proud of, that her daughter Mysie proved herself so apt a scholar that she became an adept, and was soon known as one of the finest embroideresses in the great city. ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)

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