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  • n  someone who makes or mends dresses

  • A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism.
  • An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the .
  • The outline for the first series was based partly on the stories of Eileen's parents, an underbutler and a needlewoman in the Edwardian era, and partly by Jean's reading .

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