Comments on: Nostalgia Sunday – Yemenite Embroidery

By: Dee Jowders

Dee Jowders — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:18:35 +0000

I belong to an organization that strives to keep alive different embroidery techniques
from other nations. Do you know where i can get instructions for yemenite
embroidery?

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Nostalgia Sunday – Stitching in the Seventies | ISRAELITY — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:08:45 +0000

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By: Miri

Miri — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:01:34 +0000

Beautiful embroidery…you’re totally right-who needs jewels with those wonderful necklines.

By: jessica

jessica — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:11:34 +0000

okay, i wore those dresses by esther zeitz, when i was about 6 and 8, or maybe 4 and 6. why twice? because i had two older sisters, and they had matching esther zeitz dresses, in blue, with that heavy silver embroidery, and i hated them…and yet, i had to wear both of them when i hit each size. and my mother would say, “but their esther zeitz dresses, they’re beautiful!”