Example sentences for: embroidery

How can you use “embroidery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rustic Poland excels at folk art and handicrafts, including hand-carved wooden (usually religious) figures; leather goods from the Tatra mountains; embroidery and lace; hand-painted eggs (especially at Christmas); and colorful naïve art and glass paintings, especially that of Zakopane.

  • A late painting like Christine Lerolle Embroidering (1897), with its complex weave of frames within frames, is a veritable catalog of the craftsmanlike bric-a-brac Renoir admired: the embroidery frame constructed of bamboo; William Morris wallpaper; a Japanese vase; the rough-hewed paintings of Degas and Renoir himself that the connoisseurs are inspecting in the background.

  • Shops take advantage of the tourist traffic to sell the products of other islands, too — embroidery and songket fabrics from Sumatra, primitive art from Irian Jaya, and silver from Sulawesi.

  • In Palma, the shops Can Bonet and Dana sell fine handmade embroidery.

  • These, too, are expensive, but you can get shawls of good quality wool with distinctive embroidery at more reasonable prices.


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