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• Yoninah ( talk) 14:04, 30 December 2019 (UTC) reply

I enjoyed this brief article very much. I'd always thought of embroidery as mere embellishment and had not given any thought to its utility until a few years ago when I tried cross-stitch for the first time and was surprised at how the result transformed a piece of starched aida and handfuls of lengths of cotton floss into a material with almost the toughness and durability of leather. Nice job! – Athaenara ✉ 14:30, 18 January 2020 (UTC) reply