Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who works with a needle; a needlewoman.
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- noun One who carries out
needlework .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle
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Examples
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She began teaching at 14 and was a noted needleworker.
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She began teaching at 14 and was a noted needleworker.
Personal Information for Bella Harkavy Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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Connie, my mother, is a huge appreciator of handcrafted work of all kinds, as well as an expert knitter and talented needleworker in her own right.
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Rose Wortis was an Eastern European immigrant needleworker who devoted her life to working-class organizing and the Left.
Rose Wortis. 2009
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"Penne fit me" (Penne made me), pointing to the existence of a needleworker of that name.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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The tunics worn over armour offered great opportunities to the needleworker.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is the daintiest needleworker I have ever seen; she was taught by the nuns at
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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But above all requirements the quilt maker must be an expert needleworker, capable of making the multitude of tiny stitches with neatness and precision if she would produce the perfect quilt.
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In appliqué the craft to the needleworker is not carried to its limit, but, on the other hand, it calls for great skill in design.
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Arachne, a most industrious needleworker, had the audacity to contest against Pallas, the goddess of the art of weaving.
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