The design or pattern to be embroidered was drawn and stamped beforehand, by a designer, on a piece of leather, which the embroiderer placed lying before her and imitated with her needle.
An embroiderer kept for her work, among other materials, thread of various colours, as well as silver thread, and a special needle.
During the fifteenth century every household of any position retained the services of an embroiderer by the year.
At last she concluded it was best to be pitiless and tell her; that it would be impossible for a little embroiderer without money and without name to marry Felicien d'Hautecoeur.
Then they looked up in great astonishment; for steps were mounting, and the embroiderer was bringing someone with him to the workroom, a most unusual occurrence.
Their explanatory conversation saddened them both to an equal degree, so much did the young man appear to suffer when the embroiderer told him of his daughter's calmness and her air of forgetfulness.
I live over there with my father and mother, and I am an embroiderer of church vestments.
An embroiderer named Delobel made a set of furnishings for the bedroom of Louis XIV.
It is likely that the same embroiderer executed the pieces of all these.
Nicolas Waquier was armourer and embroiderer to King John in 1352.
The colour which the decorative painter" (and the embroiderer also) "may cast around you is neither more nor less than an atmosphere in which your eye will be either strengthened or debilitated.
Middleton, in the passage quoted above, says that the embroiderer copied the miniature painter; in composing scenes and arranging figures this would of course be the case.
The use of frames is also necessary when a particular aim of the embroiderer is to secure an even tension of stitch throughout his work.
The designer should either be also an embroiderer or have studied the subject so thoroughly as to be able to direct the worker, for the design should be drawn in relation to the colours and stitches in which it is to be carried out.
The palette of the embroidererin silk is superlatively rich.
The embroiderer of the 13th century was not afraid of that (aimed at it, perhaps?
There is quite an epitome of little diapers in that fragment of needlework; and one can hardly doubt that the embroiderer found it great fun to contrive them.
The cord of the embroiderer answers to the cloisons of the enameller, the surfaces of shining floss to the films of vitreous enamel.
The distinction here made between designer and embroiderer is not casual, but afore-thought, notwithstanding the division of labour it implies.
The embroiderer of that lion was an artist, perhaps the artist who designed it.
The practice of the embroiderer may be reminiscent of that, or that may be the origin of the primitive painters' convention.
It is more as if the embroiderer wanted to represent a precious tissue, a stuff shot with gold.
Embroiderer or embroidery designer will, as a matter of fact, be constantly inspired by flower forms, and silk gives the pure colour of their petals as nearly as may be.
O maister Doctor, you are welcome to us, And you, Albertus, it doth please me much To see you vowed rivalls thus agree.
Thus for my sake you (of a noble Earle) Are glad to be a mercinary Painter.
There needed not the embroiderer of gold and purple to blazon the triumph of a conqueror who disdained other habiliment than the skin of some slaughtered beast.
The name of Dame Leviet has descended to posterity as an embroiderer to the Conqueror and his Queen.
I remember that some of my grandmother's "huz-ifs" still held threads of different colored crewels wound on bits of cardboard, and any embroiderermight envy the convenience of such holders.
In fact, it is the business of the successful embroiderer to know as much about design as she must about stitchery and color.
The youngembroiderer exchanged her attic room for a small apartment, still very modest, but indicating a less precarious financial condition.
Yes, monsieur, I have noticed that," the young embroiderer continued.
Still, my prettyembroiderer pays no attention to anyone else.
The pretty embroiderer laughed heartily, as she said: "Then we'll go to the Cirque-National.
In short, before the tailor and embroiderer withdrew, I, who had only seven hundred crowns in my purse, had ordered them to undertake a suit which was to cost me fourteen thousand.
I firmly believe that Essares, having noticed certain similarities in height and figure, had made every preparation to take Simeon's place if circumstances obliged him to disappear.
Essares, on the contrary, was bald-headed and had a beard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embroiderer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
