crochet-work

The original antimacassar was usually made of stiff white crochet-work, but in the third quarter of the 19th century it became simpler and softer, usually with a simple pattern in wool or silk.

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Yes; odds and ends, needlework, crochet-work, embroidery, and that kind of thing.

A Doll's House 2006

Yes; odds and ends, needlework, crochet-work, embroidery, and that kind of thing.

A Doll's House 2006

She would begin at once to roll up her crochet-work or fold her sewing, without the slightest sign of haste.

To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad 2004

One evening the girls had washed up the tea-cups in the kitchen, and March had put on her house-shoes, and taken up a roll of crochet-work, which she worked at slowly from time to time.

The Fox 2003

And when the coffee is ready and her guests are drinking, she sews a little to begin with on a white cloth, and then does a little crochet-work with a collar of some sort, and so with all manner of maidenly tasks.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

Also say that I have altered my mind about the satin, which I wish to be tamboured with crochet-work; also, that tambour is to be used with monograms on the various garments.

Poor Folk 2003

Mrs. Peniston, on whom she had looked in a day or two after the dinner, laid down her crochet-work and turned abruptly from her oblique survey of Fifth Avenue.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Mrs. Peniston, on whom she had looked in a day or two after the dinner, laid down her crochet-work and turned abruptly from her oblique survey of Fifth Avenue.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

Mrs. Peniston, on whom she had looked in a day or two after the dinner, laid down her crochet-work and turned abruptly from her oblique survey of Fifth Avenue.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987