lapwork

Work in which one part overlaps another.

Noun

  1. Work in which one part overlaps another.
    • A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines - 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial...

Origin

From lap + work.