Embroidery quotes

Embroidery

9 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth Author

"It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."

Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen Fashion Designer

"When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows."

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