[ SECRET POST #3609 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3609 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever heard of smocking? It means that you can make a single garment last for a very long time and fit very many different sized people. And that's embroidery.

[(Anonymous)]

Great. You have found an edge case to fit the definition. That does not mean embroidery in general is a functional art. It means that smocking is a functional art.

For the wider definition, embroidery is a decorative art. There is nothing wrong with decorative art, and your very determination to affix it to functional art belies the same desperate anger that so many have toward the belittlement of women's work. But why? Paintings are decorative and hugely valued by the art world. Please don't fall into the trap of thinking that art needs to be functional to be valued.

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Embroidery and other textile arts are also markers of status and a saleable skill. (Entire villages lived off lace making during the Irish Potato Famine, for example.) When clothing has to be made from scratch, and you can expect to afford maybe one new set of clothes per year - the ability to improve it is a non-trivial skill.