Julia Glass

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

American Novelist

Jessica Brown Findlay

I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!

English Actress

Lady Colin Campbell

When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really had an aptitude for sewing - my mother taught me. I even learned to embroider when I was very young and I made the most fantastic dresses for my dolls. So I thought I could be a designer.

British Writer

W. G. Sebald

There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.

German Writer

Alice Sebold

I always had that sense of being censored for the things that I thought. Why is it wrong to embroider your pants, or paint with acrylics on your clothing? Why is that weird? Isn't it weirder to want to be like everyone else?

American Writer

Oscar Wilde

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

Irish Poet

Maira Kalman

I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.

American Author

Britt Ekland

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

Swedish Actress

Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

French Writer

Spencer Tracy

American Actor

Embroider refers to adding decorative stitches, often combined with colorful threads, to enhance fabric.

Decorative Use

Embroidery can be done by hand for a personal touch or by a machine for consistency and mass production.

Hand vs Machine

Embroidery styles can vary by culture and contain specific symbols or patterns with historical meaning.

Cultural Significance

When someone 'embroiders' a story, they make it more interesting by adding extra, often fictitious details.

Story Enhancement

Embroidering the truth doesn't necessarily mean lying but rather enhancing reality slightly.

Subtle Exaggeration

Using 'embroider' in conversation often indicates that a speaker is knowingly adding flair to their tale.

Conversational Color

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Biker Chicks PIPE National...

 walking through the community up to the commercial center of zac apostle which was the most important town for the merchants in the area the nawa men dressed in white cotton trousers and shirts and the women wore these blouses embroidered with mythological figures

The Aztecs: From Empire...

 and memorize it and move on getting to know her. In fact, we might even celebrate her by gifting her with a sweatshirt or an embroidered pillow that celebrates the name she has chosen for herself. And just like your Nana and your grandma,

Language around gender...

 I felt like I was floating, floating on the love and prayers of all those who hummed around me like worker bees, bringing me notes and socks and flowers and quilts embroidered with words of encouragement. But when they sat beside me,

"Everything happens for...

 It was hiding behind leftover patches of linoleum on the worn-out floor my mother was having removed. The workman was busy when the garden caught my attention. My eyes became glued to the patterns of embroidered roses

What gardening taught me...

 He says "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with gold and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your

Bring on the learning...

 that are only for foreigners -- and the same bloody shirt embroidered time and again. What we want is a partnership with the Italian design firms. Yeah, we have the best embroiderers in the world!

Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...

 continues to delight audiences with the actors' elaborate makeup, extravagant and delicately embroidered costumes, and the unmistakable melodrama of the stories told on stage.

Kabuki: The people's...

 and intelligence for personality. that's the illusion, an illusion created by technology and embroidered by our imagination