Daily AncestorEmbroiderer
An embroiderer decorated cloth with stitched designs in thread or yarn, by hand or later by machine.
Embroidery is decorating fabric with a needle and thread or yarn, one of the oldest forms of needlework. It can include beads, pearls, quills and sequins. Common old stitches include chain, blanket, running, satin and cross stitch, while many modern stitches belong to machine embroidery.
Wiktionary records broderer as an obsolete word for an embroiderer.
As seen in a recordOccupation and industry columns of the 1910 to 1940 census
Rosina Cattaneo, 27, Embroiderer, Dress factory
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