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painting with thread, slower than patience and twice as smug about it
means The craft of decorating fabric with needle and thread to form designs, or figuratively, the act of adding invented flourishes to a story.
from From Old French 'broderie' (ornamentation), built on 'broder' (to embroider), which entered English with the 'em-' prefix meaning roughly 'to put into.' The root likely traces to a Frankish word related to 'bord,' an edge or border — fitting, since the earliest embroidery often dressed up the hems and edges of cloth. The figurative sense of 'embroidering the truth' came later, once people noticed that decorating a plain story works much like decorating a plain shirt.
- ancient flex
- Chinese silk embroidery dates back over 2,000 years
- war record
- The Bayeux Tapestry chronicles a battle in 70 meters of stitching
- sailor's hobby
- Bored sailors embroidered to pass long voyages
- machine takeover
- One modern machine stitches what took monks months
- hidden code
- Stitch patterns once marked regional and family identity
royal school of needlework — founded 1872, created coronation robes for every british monarch since queen victoria
opus anglicanum — 13th-14th century english church vestments, most valuable is the syon cope worth £15 million
crewel embroidery — 18th-19th century technique using wool on linen, jacobean crewel remains the most sought pattern style