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Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

We're talking about something I have wanted to talk about for a long, like literal years.

Yeah. It is tricky to pinpoint the origin of embroidered embellishment for obvious reasons.

Most textiles that were around before recorded history don't exist anymore. They have not

survived the ravage of time. And as a consequence, depending on what source you look at, you'll actually

see different timelines for the origin of needlework used to decorate fabric. And then to add to that,

this is, of course, a global art. Different cultures have employed embroidered embellishments for a long time.

It seems to spontaneously arise kind of in every culture in some way, which I think is cool.

But each of those cultures had their own timelines regarding when embroidery was adopted into their handiwork.

But as I just mentioned, I've been wanting to talk about embroidery and its history

for a long time. When I tell you literal years, I'm not kidding, and I have loved it for a lot of

years, and I have started and not completed this episode a minimum of five times. Yeah. Where I'm like,

I don't, I can't wrap my head around how to manage all of this.

I don't know that I did manage all of this, but it's because it's overwhelming.

There's a lot.

You can't be comprehensive at all.

Right.

And you have to accept that and try to pick pieces that you think will give people a decent, you know, set of informational facts and contexts

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