lapwork
nounEtymology From lap + work.
1
Work in which one part overlaps another.
- A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC: