(n.) Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
(n.) Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others were recycled: a panel of embroidery that probably came from a magnificent set of bed curtains was chopped up and stitched on to a priest’s chasuble, made from carefully pieced-together fragments of a woman’s gown of magnificent Italian patterned silk.
(2) The organisation trains over 400 prisoners in embroidery skills annually in around 29 UK jails.
(3) Her Thread Squirrel embroidery business was booming over Christmas and now January is busier than the 51-year-old was expecting.
(4) The solderers showed no apparent abnormalities in comparison with the embroidery workers.
(5) In embroidery there was just one designer and 10 interns."
(6) They described the claim that interns formed a large part of the workforce in the pattern-making and embroidery departments as "untrue and incredible" and pointed out that such assertions "betrayed a complete ignorance of Alexander McQueen's employee structure", which includes a substantial design team in London supplemented by several freelance technicians and about 60 employees in Italy, and a number of subcontractors who undertake creative and production tasks.
(7) For SS13, the boys are being inspired by: "the 1980s, detectives, Miami Vice, tapestries and embroidery, pastels, florals and Grandma".
(8) But the pièce de résistance was the trim on the jacket, which was made up of 20 or 30 matchbox-sized toy cars, reappropriated as shiny black embroidery.
(9) See the children stitching the fine embroidery and beading?
(10) The V&A’s autumn exhibition Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery , will be the first in more than half a century devoted to this beautiful embroidery work, coveted by kings and popes – and for the first time in decades, the museum has dared to use Latin in an exhibition title.
(11) Most models wore boots, some thigh-high and embellished with embroidery, and all were dripping in gold jewellery.
(12) Raisa, three years into a seven-year sentence, told me that she was a sociable person on the outside but that in the colony she just wanted to withdraw: "I usually try to hide behind a book or embroidery or I try to escape to somewhere.
(13) According to fashion forecasting agency Editd, the current trends most likely to continue to boom next year include experimental textures, such as embossing and embroidery, and floral prints.
(14) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(15) Almost 200 women, who previously worked as manual scavengers in the town, have been rehabilitated and trained as beauticians or in food processing, sewing or embroidery.
(16) You could also buy gold or marble busts of the chairman, tapes of his speeches, fine embroideries of his countenance, and coins, stamps, ballpoints, pencils, cigarette lighters, key rings, CDs, T-shirts and teacups, all with Mao's image on.
(17) Some merchants visiting London from Iceland were equally dazzled, and commissioned embroideries of Icelandic saints in gold on crimson velvet, which they gave to their local church in northern Iceland.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Intricate embroidery adorns a large ecclesiastical piece.
(19) There are many more beautiful objects than two frayed and faded pieces of embroidery, in the first exhibition in a lifetime at the V&A of a medieval art form in which England once led the world.
(20) Watson's internship in 2009-10 included drawing artwork for embroidery, repairing embellished clothing, and dyeing large quantities of fabric.
Tatt
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is also presented that the 3'-UTR with its conserved (TATT)n motif probably has multiple functions in lymphoid cells operating both at the chromosomal level, where the sequence may be involved in the specific binding of the nonhistone chromatin high mobility group protein HMG-I, and at the RNA level, where the conserved sequence is involved in selective posttranscriptional mRNA degradation by a lymphocyte-specific nuclease(s).
(2) In particular, a tandemly repeated sequence (TATT), n, found in the 3' untranslated tail of the bovine IL-2 clone is also found in the 3' untranslated region of a large group of cytokine genes and other inducible genes of the lymphoid and immune response systems.
(3) In particular, a tandemly repeated sequence, (TATT)n, found in the 3' untranslated tail of the bovine IL-2 clone is also found in the 3' untranslated region of the other known interleukin and interferon genes, as well as in similar regions of many other inducible genes of the lymphoid and immune response systems, suggesting a cell or tissue-specific regulatory function for these evolutionarily conserved sequences.
(4) What the spin doctors play up Her pregnancy, her "edgy" Bristol art student days, and that dolphin tatt on her ankle.
(5) It contains 37 TATT or ATTT(A) sequences that have been suggested as mediators of the stability of mRNAs for cytokines, lymphokines, and oncogenes (Shaw, G., and R. Kamen.
(6) He should buy a Tatts Lotto ticket.” The manager of opposition business, Tony Burke , said the case against Robert was “cut and dried”.
(7) Wimbledon 2Day: BBC admits defeat over format Read more Looking at players’ arms, at the lack of full-sleeve, snake-skin tatts that are part of the modern footballer’s muscular armature, it’s tempting to conclude that the single best thing about tennis players is that they’re not footballers.
(8) Sequences highly homologous to the three Mt-sequences were also found in the 5'-flanking regions of the genes for the beta subunit of human F0F1-ATPase and rat somatic cytochrome c. The Mt1 sequence (TATT-CAGGT) is similar to the GFII recognition site (RTCACGTG) found in the 5'-flanking regions of the yeast nuclear genes for three cytochrome bc1 complex subunits.
(9) Only Sally's tots redeem her tatts from being tatty Why has the Speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, decided to get a tattoo?
(10) These results suggest a complex in vivo role for the 3'-UTR of bIL-2 cDNA and the conserved (TATT)n sequences found within it.
(11) The part-timers, the tatt-tourists and their half-baked vanilla scribblings, however, are another breed altogether.
(12) Bercow had her children's names inked, tweeting: "I will never regret having tatt of my kids."