Here, children play, women embroider, men chat and feed caged birds.

The woman with the gold frog embroidered on her green robe was standing in front of him.

An old woman wearing a shawl over a dress embroidered with pearls stood on the roof coping.

As the wave advanced down the aisle, it soon overcame a rather large woman in a white dress with bright orange flowers embroidered into its light fabric.

There"- and he shuddered- "there hangs her mantle, on which a dead woman embroidered a spell of dreadful potency.

It also runs an orphanage for girls and a program in which 4,800 women embroider fabric at home.

A woman in a pink silk robe with white carnations embroidered across it met them just over the threshold.

In general, women embroider and men weave.

The women had embroidered the cushions and stuffed them with wild kapok.

On plain white cloth, the women had embroidered a broad band of flowers, trees, birds, stars, and what she supposed were religious symbols.