It was obvious at first glance that Mrs Burbridge was a highly talented embroideress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthouse]

She loves I sewing and she's become a really clever embroideress in the short time she's been here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighthouse]

Matthew Paris, in his Life of St. Alban, tells of an excellent embroideress, Christine, Prioress of Margate, who lived in the middle of the twelfth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

With no further preamble, she took her supplies from the falconer's bag and proceeded to show the women how a professional seamstress, embroideress, or modiste transferred an embroidery pattern from paper to fabric.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

Evidently the embroideress indulged in autobiography in the following: "And she, to honour the esquire her husband, wished to adorn and increase his house furniture, and there has worked, with her own hand, this and still many other pretty cloths, to her memory.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

That great art patron, Henry the Third, chiefly employed for his embroideries, says Mr. Hudson Turner, "a certain Mabel of Bury St. Edmund's, whose skill as an embroideress seems to have been remarkable, and many interesting records of her curious performances might be collected.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Then comes a mysterious little lady in a kind of shrine, to whom a clerk is making curious advances; to the casual observer it would appear that the gentleman is patting her on the cheek, but we are informed by Thierry that this represents an embroideress, and that the clerk is in the act of ordering the Bayeux Tapestry itself!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

Séguin, embroideress, 240 Rue Saint-Martin, died at the hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napoleon the Little] Reference

Into what a haughty beauty the quiet embroideress had been transformed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

I unearthed the embroideress, and ordered a kerchief like Madame de Fischtaminel's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analytical Studies] Reference

She was apprenticed to an embroideress; for all kinds of embroidery were in much greater use then than now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago] Reference

Why, then, had this skilful embroideress deliberately threaded her needle with a shade of brilliant blue silk?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Quaker Saints] Reference

I am afraid she had no other female accomplishments than those by which the sempstress or embroideress earns her daily bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference

Having so much time to spare, and so little variety of occupation, Christie was a more skilful embroideress than many older women.    From Wordnik.com.  [All's Well Alice's Victory] Reference

My elder sister stayed on and became an embroideress under Miss May Morris, and the hangings round Morris's big bed at Kelmscott House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years] Reference

Just as we were finishing breakfast by the fire in my room -- I shall never forget it -- the embroideress called to get her money for the neckerchief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analytical Studies] Reference

She was an embroideress, as I soon discovered from a small stretching-frame, containing some unfinished work, which she occasionally carried in her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852] Reference

"He must have had some trouble yesterday," was the thought that constantly arose in the embroideress 'mind as she saw some change in the features of the "Black Gentleman.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Home] Reference

The golden thread with which the letters are embroidered is finer than the finest silk I ever saw! said Traverse, admiringly, to please his mother, whom he supposed to be the embroideress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Hand] Reference

The most selfish soul who chanced to see this domestic scene would carry away with him a perfect image of the life led in Paris by the working class of women, for the embroideress evidently lived by her needle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Home] Reference

French poetry books belonging to the "Sieur Amadis de Jocelin," and Priscilla's small glittering needle flew in and out the open - work stitchery of a linen pillow-slip she was mending as deftly as any embroideress of Tudor times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference

This circumstance was not unobserved by the little embroideress, but it was only observed to be shrunk from in her own timid way; and probably it would soon have passed from her mind, if it had not been followed up by something more direct and dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII] Reference

And so it turned out that, while Anabella was gloating over the beautiful work of the timid embroideress, Balgarnie was busy admiring the artist, but not merely -- perhaps not at all -- as an artist, only as an object over whom he wished to exercise power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII] Reference

Well pleased were they with that word of hers, but none the less sent two sergeants and a squire with led horses unto the cheaping-town, a goodly and great town hight Greenford, which was some twenty miles thence, with the errand to bring back with them a good shaper and embroideress, and sewing-women, and cloth and silk and linen, and all things needful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

She must be a needle-woman, cigar-maker, embroideress, or something of that kind, "and he walked on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

“He must have had some trouble yesterday,” was the thought that constantly arose in the embroideress’ mind as she saw some change in the features of the “Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Home] Reference

Hardwick, "was a good embroideress, who worked, probably, in company with the Queen of Scots when that unfortunate woman was under the guardianship of the Earl of Shrewsbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

Together, just the three of them—her father a retired art teacher who rarely spoke, her mother an embroideress and potter who smiled at stars and squirrels—they strode the heathland heights of North London, Zoë papoosed to one or the other of their chests, listening to their heartbeats and gathering intimation there, like Wordsworth’s pygmy poet, of all that nature had in store for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kalooki Nights] Reference

"She is an excellent dressmaker and embroideress; very poor, and quite willing, I am sure, to go into the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference

Tagged and posted at: http://embroideress. blogspot.com/2007/04/blogs-that-make-me-think. html.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking Blogger Awards] Reference

She may be a good cook, a fine laundress, a carver of wood, a painter, a sculptor, an embroideress, a writer, a physician, and she will be eligible, if her manners are good, to the best society anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

French scholar, a worse German, a worse English, an admirable dancer, an inaccurate musician, a good rider, a bad draughtswoman, a bad hairdresser, at the mercy of her maid; a hot theologian, knowing nothing, a sorry accountant, no housekeeper, no seamstress, a fair embroideress, a capital geographer, and no cook.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simpleton] Reference