The Worshipful Company of Broderers is one of the livery companies of the

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. Broderers were workers in

embroidery Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. In modern days, embroidery is usually seen ...

; the organization of Broderers existed in at least 1376, and was officially incorporated by a

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in 1561. As the craft of embroidery has lost its importance as a trade, the company has become less of a

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for broderers. Instead, the company is now, as are most livery companies, a charitable foundation. The company is the forty-eighth in the

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for livery companies. Its motto is ''Omnia Desuper'', Latin for ''All From Above''. The livery hall of the Broderers,

Broderers' Hall The Broderers' Hall or Embroiderers' Hall at 36 Gutter Lane was the livery hall of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, the City of London livery company for embroiderers from 1515 until its destruction in 1940. The hall was originally a monas ...

, stood on Gutter Lane from 1515 until its destruction in the

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. The Broderers now dine in Mercers' Hall.

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External links

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