I stole a glance at Lettice’s stitchery. She was fashioning a pattern of bulrushes in metallic gold and olive-green threads on a background of Nile green sarcenet. On the other side of the passageway, Genevra was adorning stiff cream-colored silk with brilliant red and yellow pomegranates.
In my teenaged years I’d spent my time studying Calculus, Operating Systems Protocols, and Mapping Theory. In their own time, Lettice and Genevra had been honing their skills with a needle, learning how to use gilt thread and create precise goeblin and Spanish black work tent stitches. Embroidery was a hobby for me, but they had worked on it daily since they were young girls. My lack of experience showed.
Having taken one look at the work I’d been doing on clothes from the household mending basket, our new project lead, Genevra, immediately declared that “Lady Isabella can do the plain sewing for her Majesty’s ladies.” I returned to hemming a finely woven, but indeed very plain, white linen sheet with a sigh.
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