0 patterns or pictures that consist of stitches sewn directly onto cloth: --
1 the way that someone makes a story more entertaining by adding imaginary details to it: --
comic embroidery
2 the activity of decorating cloth or clothing with patterns or pictures sewn directly onto the material, or a pattern or picture created in this way: --
[ U ] She's really good at embroidery.
Kings and poets used rich colors and elaborate gold-thread embroideries.
On their jackets are silver embroideries, amulets hemayils with religion expressions put inside these small silver containers to br protected against evil's eye.
There are several symbolic expressions in the embroideries and the accompanying silver brooches.
Azerbaijani arts reminds about itself also in ornaments of costume with artistic embroideries, in weaving and knitting.
Although the scheme had a large and current selection of embroideries in a number of styles, foreign examples represented the collection's best needlework.
Special mention must be made of the carved woodwork, embroideries and plate preserved in many churches.
Embroideries that can be performed on plainweave do not require the crafter to perform stitches at a precise thread count.
Elder women in the village still make embroideries on a regular basis, in some cases for their living.