The spider embroiders its web for its strolls and its feasts.
Aren't pyramids, cathedrals, the ships of the Vikings splendid 
   embroideries...
The sea embroiders slowly around continents, and the fleece of
   sheep rhymes with the embroideries of clouds.  Madame Schnell
   has embroidered to enchant certain clouds.
Fire embroiders its blazes, from which we maintain too great
   a distance, and Bryen shows us the embroideries of fire.
Lichens and mosses have imparted to Arp the subtle craft of his
   embroideries.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp embroiders her canvases to encourage crystals.
Sonia Delaunay uses the Eiffel Tower needle for her embroideries.
It is not because we care to embroider Broadway that we approach
   the works of the embroideress Angiboult.
The ladybug embroiders ladybirds with Kosnick-Kloss embroidery.
Thus embroidery is more natural than oil painting, the swallows
   have been embroidering the sky for thousands of centuries.
There is no such thing as Applied Art.
     

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