Being disengaged, and placing myself at her service, I was presently furnished with a list of the wools, silks, embroidering thread, etcetera, wanted in the pupils' work, and having equipped myself in a manner suiting the threatening aspect of a cloudy and sultry day, I was just drawing the spring-bolt of the street-door, in act to issue forth, when Madame's voice again summoned me to the salle-à-manger.
I am glad I was not really much afraid of him—that, indeed, close in his presence, I felt no terror at all; for upon his demanding cord and gibbet to execute the sentence recently pronounced, I was able to furnish him with a needleful of embroidering thread with such accommodating civility as could not but allay some portion at least of his surplus irritation.
music, singing, and dancing; also embroidering the fine cambric handkerchiefs which she could not afford to buy ready worked: such mere trifles as lessons in history, geography, grammar, and arithmetic, she left undone, or got others to do for her.
" Cecily's tears had been dropping on the autograph quilt square she was faithfully embroidering.
Miss Cornelia adjusted her glasses and fell to embroidering with exquisite stitches.
He chose to lay aside his hat and wear a scarlet fez of her embroidering; but by superficial observers this was necessarily liable to be interpreted less as a compliment to Lucy than as a mark of coxcombry.
Sani women are expert at spinning, weaving, and embroidering.
Take the double-face embroidered"Cat",representative work of Suzhou embroidery, for example,the artist splits the hair-thin coloured silk thread into filaments-half, quarter, 1/12 or even 1 /48 of its original thickness--and uses these in embroidering concealing in the process the thousands of ends and joints and making them disappear as if by magic.
In ancient China,ever since the matrilineal society was replaced by a patrilineal one,the social division of labor has been based on men ploughing and women weaving; the tradition of embroidering shoes has been passed down from one generation to another by Chinese women.
