woolwork

I went to a party last night, and there out of five ladies three were Roman Catholics and had the Pope's indulgence for doing woolwork on Sundays.

The woolwork pictures are quite obviously the work of a male hand.

The woolwork pictures are quite obviously the work of a male hand, usually, were embroidered in a crude long stitch on sailcloth or some other coarse material stretched over a frame knocked together from any available wood.

Like the productions of 'outsider artists', their principal usefulness is to their creators--for killing time in the case of the woolwork pictures laboriously stitched by homesick sailors on long sea voyages, or for calming nerves in the case of the military quilts patiently pieced by soldiers recovering from the Crimean War (Fig.

I was saying to a friend in London a few months ago that I had never discovered a sailor's woolwork picture; they usually depicted boats they had sailed on in the 19th century, but a few weeks later one turned up.

I'm no expert on the intricacies of embroidery or the many different varieties available, but of them all my favourite, and the easiest to understand, is Berlin woolwork.

(47) Plutarch writes that Fulvia aimed to govern a man in public life instead of governing her house and doing her woolwork (Plutarch, Ant.

MAN UTD: Van Der Gouw 7; G Neville 6, P Neville 7, Brown 6, Silvestre 5, Beckham 6 (Chadwick, 83), Butt 6 (Woolwork, 28) 7, Keane 7, Solskjaer 7, Yorke 6 (Sheringham, 75), Giggs 8.

Interestingly, woolwork embroideries were made by sailors and convalescing soldiers in the aftermath of the Crimean and the Great Wars.

Six woolwork pictures after Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated Last Supper were shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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