Mary crochets lace every night.

Ireland is famous for lace.

Ireland is famous for its lace.

The dress was trimmed with lace.

Ireland is famous for its lace.

That 3 pair of adorable lace up sandals?

Her dress was richly trimmed with Venetian lace.

A conspiracy to lace letters with anthrax might incite private terror.

Garment workers at Alif Embroidery Village, a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

In addition to massage, prisoners also learn seamstressing, cooking, embroidery and other trades.

Boyish figures, on the other hand, can wear clothes with ruffling, appliqué, embroidery, or shirring.

After dinner, however, Kitty got up and went as usual to the sick man, taking her embroidery.

The exhibition, created to encourage embroidery as a tool for empowerment and resistance, fit perfectly with the MAB's women's collective.

Blogger Liza Bogutskaya braves the roads in Crimea in a car decorated with Ukrainian embroidery patterns and dresses in Ukrainian colors.

She wore a white dress trimmed with wide embroidery, and as she sat in a corner of the verandah behind some plants, did not hear Vronsky coming.

Embroidery became a tool for women in Brazil to express their frustration with the violence perpetuated by energy companies looking to exploit local communities for their resources.

In her black hair, all her own, she wore a little garland of pansies, and in her girdle, among the lace, a bunch of the same flowers.

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Despite her grandmother's difficult childhood, Olya portrays her as a knowledgeable yet curious 75 year old woman, who writes poetry and memoires, does beautiful embroidery, plays computer games and enjoys cooking.

And her black velvet with rich lace was not at all conspicuous, but served only as a frame she alone was noticeable simple, natural, elegant and at the same time merry and animated.

Two maid servants, strolling about on the platform, turned their heads to look at her, and made some audible remarks about her dress. 'It's real,' they said of the lace she was wearing.

Other online news sites picked up the news, emphatically asserting that residents of the indigenous Mixe community in Oaxaca could no longer be allowed to produce their traditional textile embroidery unless they paid the corresponding royalties.

It's addressed to Mexico's state authorities, stating They should publicly declare that embroidery made by the Mixe communities of Oaxaca are protected by law and are not subject to appropriation or patents by Mexican or foreign individuals.

Next to a lady wearing a turban, and a bald old man who blinked angrily just as Vronsky's moving glass reached him, he suddenly saw Anna's proud head, strikingly beautiful, and smiling in its frame of lace.

I know she wanted to stop him but did not know how,' he thought. 'Yes, except for the interest she takes in the housekeeping, that interest she certainly has, her clothes, and her embroidery, she has no real interests.

It took four months' work and 25 girls (as the designer calls his seamstresses) to create the pearl encrusted, ivory coloured silk gown with twelve different types of lace and a train four and a half metres long.

The expression of his face and his whole figure, in uniform with crosses and white trousers trimmed with gold lace, as he went hurriedly along, reminded Levin of a hunted animal conscious that things are going badly with him.

There was no trace of dust left about there was a mat beside the bed on the table medicine bottles and a bottle of water were neatly placed, also a pile of folded linen which would be required later, and Kitty's embroidery.

'Love,' she slowly repeated to herself, and suddenly while releasing the lace, she added aloud 'The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand,' and she looked him in the face. 'Au revoir!'

She, in the dark lilac dress she had worn during the first days of her marriage and which was specially memorable and dear to him, sat with her embroidery on that same old leather covered sofa which had stood in the study through his father's and grandfather's times.

Anna was already dressed in a light silk dress cut low in front and trimmed with velvet a dress she had had made in Paris and on her head she wore some rich, white lace, which outlined her face and set off her brilliant beauty to great advantage.

The hall porter stood with his hand on the outer front door, Anna with her deft little hand was disengaging the lace of her sleeve which had caught on a hook of her fur coat, and with bent head was listening with delight to what Vronsky, who accompanied her, was saying.

She had nothing to change into as she was already wearing her best dress but to give some sign that she had prepared for dinner, she asked the maid to brush her dress, and she put on clean cuffs, pinned a fresh bow to her dress and placed some lace in her hair.

Bowing right and left to his acquaintances who, here as elsewhere, greeted him joyfully, he passed on to the buffet, drank a glass of vodka and ate a bit of fish as hors d'oeuvre, and said something to the painted Frenchwoman, bedecked with ribbons and lace, who sat at a little counter something that made even this Frenchwoman burst into frank laughter.

Her dress did not feel tight anywhere, the lace around her bodice did not slip, the bows did not crumple or come off, the pink shoes with their high curved heels did not pinch but seemed to make her feet lighter. The thick rolls of fair hair kept up as if they had grown naturally so on the little head.