"threadwork" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "thread + work",
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      "form": "threadworks",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1996, Helen M. Jewell, Women in Medieval England, page 35",
          "text": "Fine embroidery, especially gold threadwork, was of course a specialised skill, done for rich patrons, not the stitchcraft of hovels.",
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          "ref": "2005, William David Shaw, Babel and the ivory tower: the scholar in the age of science, page xii",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Benjamin F. Shearer, Culture and Customs of the United States: Culture, page 358",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2009, Erica James, Precious Time",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Work made with, or as if with, threads."
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  "word": "threadwork"
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2008, Benjamin F. Shearer, Culture and Customs of the United States: Culture, page 358",
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