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Embroidery medallion
Embroidery

Embroidery

Embroidery often touches the art of making something plain into something fine — tact, resourcefulness, the gift of adorning life's given cloth. The dream may ask where you're working beauty into the ordinary, what skill of making-the-best you're being credited with, and what new addition to your household it foreshadows.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for embroidery, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

If a woman dreams of embroidering, she will be admired for her tact and ability to make the best of everything that comes her way. For a married man to see embroidery, signifies a new member in his household, For a lover, this denotes a wise and economical wife.