part of the ornamental design of the article it will be appreciated that at least most of the above advantages if not all would also be present to a greater or lesser degree if only one of the marginal portions 10a or 10b were provided with one or more of the wires 13 it will also be realized that while the present invention has been developed for and finds a highly advantageous application in embroidery strips 10 of about 5 cm to 15 cm in width it could also be used in conjunction with other shapes and sizes of embroidery fabrices with the same or similar advantages so for instance the marginal portion wires 13 could confer 34 plastic 34 relief looks to embroidered articles to be used as tapestries but they could also be employed in embroidered articles to be used as doilies of sorts or for similar ornamental and or utilitarian purposes in that case the inherent plastic deformability of the wires 13 would make it possible to drape the article around obtuse right or even acute angle corners of furniture pieces or the like so that the very presence of such wires 13 would be hardly noticeable from the way the article would drape itself around the respective corner or even from the 34 feel 34 of the article and yet the shape retaining action of such wires 10 would be there but only.