knitwork

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noun A network of yarn created by interlacing threads of yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine; knitting.

noun needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine

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"knitwork," with tips, patterns, and a great variety of yarn.

unknown title 2009
"knitwork," with tips, patterns, and a great variety of yarn.

unknown title 2009
When it comes time to install, she gathers up a team of friends and local volunteers to cut and affix the knitwork.

Turning Knitting Into Art That Pops Rachel Emma Silverman 2011
The oldest knitwork Sundbø discovered in her late-twentieth-century rag pile was a pair of seventeenth-century mittens, discarded alongside heavily patched longjohns, black-and-white fishermen's sweaters, and decades of stylish pullovers and jackets adapted, often with clever variations, from patterns published in women's magazines that ranged from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Women Artists Win! Rowland, Ingrid D. 2008
I have ten and a half inches of more-or-less decent knitwork, more-or-less twenty-two stitches all the way up and down.

Knit One, Cast Two, Rock On Cheryl 2005
Would the dragon unravel like knitwork if he did cut its line?

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
Its legs were formed of loops, its body of closely interlocked convolutions, and its tail was like knitwork.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
Its legs were formed of loops, its body of closely interlocked convolutions, and its tail was like knitwork.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
Would the dragon unravel like knitwork if he did cut its line?

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980