wool-work

The very furniture, the red paper with yellow patterns in the drawing-room, the numerous rush-bottomed chairs in the dining-room, the faded wool-work cushions, embroidered with figures of girls and dogs, on the sofa, the branching lamps, and the gloomy-looking portraits on the walls — everything inspired an involuntary melancholy, about everything there clung a sense of chill and flatness.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

Once he went out and got a fresh candle, and put it into the tin candlestick, and set it among the china ornaments on wool-work mats.

Red Pottage 2004

He was dressed in a rough blue suit of clothes, all torn and much stained by sea water, and his head was covered with a red cap of wool-work which rested lightly on his tangled masses of hair.

Madame Midas 2003

People returning from mass saw him at his door in his wool-work slippers.

Madame Bovary 2003

The next morning he was sitting before a cheerful grate fire in his aunt's private parlor at a certain hotel in Boston, his long legs stretched towards the blaze, and his chin dropped meditatively on his breast, while she, at the other end of the leopard-skin, worked busily on some fleecy white wool-work, occasionally glancing towards his darkly-thoughtful face.

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

Curtain, XVIIth century wool-work (Plate VII.), 361

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

Annie Price sent the pattern she promised for my wool-work?

Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin Lucy Byerley

The open and solid fillings are often used together in the same piece of work; examples of this can be seen on the XVIIth century wool-work curtains, the large scrolling leaves are sometimes partly worked openly and a portion, possibly reflexed, filled in with solid stitches in gradating colour; see for an example Plate VIII.

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

She has ceased playing, and is now sitting by a low table with her lovely head bent earnestly over a lap full of wool-work.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

A cry of genuine surprise burst from her lips, as, scattering her mass of wool-work on the floor, she rushed to her guardian's side with joyful greetings.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera