Definition of "wool-work" [wool-work]

• Needlework imitating tapestry, usually done on canvas with Berlin wools. The name is sometimes given to other forms of embroidery with wools. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

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