Threadwork
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Threadwork is a noun meaning Work made with, or as if with, threads.
Meaning
Work made with, or as if with, threads.
Example Sentences
Fine embroidery, especially gold threadwork, was of course a specialised skill, done for rich patrons, not the stitchcraft of hovels.
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.
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.
An hour later, and with the M6 behind them, Clara took the B5470 out of Macclesfield and found herself driving through rolling hills of lush green farmland criss-crossed with a threadwork of drystone walls.
Word Forms
- threadworks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include threadmaking, stitchwork, threading, wirework, woolwork, blackwork.
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