I am very partial to Lucknow Chikankari work. My colors that I love to work with are ivory based colors, to make… — Rhea Pillai Copy Share Image
“Embroidery?" I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy,… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of… — Eliza Bennett Copy Share Image
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the… — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In… — Nicholas Ray Copy Share Image
Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
