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  • noun Plural form of stitcher.

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Examples

  • The women, called stitchers, can spend up to 100 hours on just one piece, using techniques like embroidery and quilting.

    CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2006 2006

  • Both are the daughters of what Gray calls 'stitchers' , women who sewed for a living.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • The contractor is using five "stitchers," or wick drain rigs-the most Palmatier has ever used on a single project.

    Construction.com: Latest Headlines 2010

  • My fellow stitchers jokingly call this "reverse stitching."

    When It's Right to 'Unwrite' Karen Blumenthal 2011

  • They insisted that laser stitchers just weren't accurate enough since they needed measurements input instead of using a keen bridesmaid's eye.

    Massage 2010

  • Working with the Birth Project stitchers was like being in touch with one aspect of the continuum of women's history: the medieval workshops where women stitched together for the glory of the church; the all-female Renaissance guilds where women embellished royal robes; the 19th-century quilting bees where women coded secrets into their quilts.

    Judy Chicago: Statement 2010

  • Committed to using art as a vehicle for intellectual and social change, Chicago created The Birth Project, a series of birth and creation images from needlework executed by skilled stitchers around the country, and The Holocaust Project, (1994) in collaboration with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman.

    Personal Information for Judy Chicago 2010

  • Committed to using art as a vehicle for intellectual and social change, Chicago created The Birth Project, a series of birth and creation images from needlework executed by skilled stitchers around the country, and The Holocaust Project, (1994) in collaboration with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman.

    Personal Information for Judy Chicago Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • If you want a pressure for that and pomo techniques in history, you can look at the episodic structural form of the rhapsodes, the stitchers-of-songs, who were weaving together all sorts of bits and bobs on a coherent theme for fairly logical reasons in context.

    War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No… 2009

  • HUMlab Syjunta sewing circles will bring together HUMlab html users to stitch the RGB and CMYK hexadecimal colour codes onto the GYRMC tent, and invite the Yarn stitchers to sew their embroidered texts into a single patchwork quilt.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ele 2009

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