threadwork

Noun

1. Work made with, or as if with, threads.
   • Fine embroidery, especially gold threadwork, was of course a specialised skill, done for rich patrons, not the stitchcraft of hovels. - 1996, Helen M. Jewell, Women in Medieval England, page 35:
   • Though the Muse of higher learning cannot be cloned, she allows the prophet, rebel, and poet to soar, and the scholiast to weave intricate threadworks of commentary and gloss. - 2005, William David Shaw, Babel and the...
   • New Mexico artist Lauren Camp (1966-) designs colorful threadworks about jazz because she claims to be able to hear colours and shapes in the music. - 2008, Benjamin F. Shearer, Culture and Customs of the United States:...