Word: needlewoman
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...superb needlework. Since the 16th century Jagiellon dynasty, the women of this tiny village have been making exquisitely crocheted household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniaków had a brain wave: Why not use their ancient skills to make ... erotic underwear...
...outline for the first series was based partly on the stories of Eileen's parents, an underbutler and a needlewoman in the Edwardian era, and partly by Jean's reading preferences. She wanted the servants to talk with the uncontaminated candor of Ivy Compton-Burnett's oracular children. The close, conspiratorial relationship between Rose and Sarah, the rebel maid, was inspired by the two maids in Henry Green's novel Loving (belowstairs in a country house). Remembering how one of those maids found her mistress in bed with a lover, Jean says: "I always wanted...
Before the enclosed grille of the Discalced Carmelite Convent in Cologne, a distinguished German philosopher nervously submitted to a test of humility: she sang a ditty for the brown-robed nuns assembled to examine her for entrance. Later, one of them asked anxiously: "Is she a good needlewoman...
...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
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