1818 Times 8 Dec. 1/3 (advt.) She professes to teach English, French, the use of the globes, ragwork &c.

1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 17 May 2/1 Each person sitting down pays two cents for his chair, and..may even take a second chair to place his feet upon... Ladies with reticules and rag-work always insist upon the second chair.

1891 Cent. Dict. Rag-work, a manufacture of carpeting or similar heavy fabric from strips of rag, which are either knitted or woven together.

1923 Times 14 Dec. 17/5 The oblong carpet that is made up of bunches of long ends on a ground of blue anemones in a kind of stylized rag-work.

1950 Times 21 Feb. 8/5 Carpets of every size and kind from rag-work rugs for cottage hearths to patterned carpets ample enough to cover a West End stage.

2002 L. Reakes in Libr. Jrnl. (2003) (Nexis) 15 Apr. 85 (title) Beautiful Ragwork; Over 20 Hand-Hooked Designs for Floors, Walls, Furniture, and Accessories.

1840 in J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) I. 173 Rag-stone, or Rag-work,..flat-bedded stuff, breaking up about the thickness of a common brick,..and generally used in pieces not much larger than a brick.

1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) App. 36 Rude and wide jointed rag-work, with some herring-bone.

1869 Times 19 Feb. 9/5 Surface-ribs (of cut stone) are thrown over from the piers to the sides, the remainder of the arches being composed of rag-work.

1907 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 29 Nov. 3/5 The walls are of Polygonal Ragwork with champered [sic] quoins and dressed stone facings for door and window jambs.

1988 P. Mytton-Davies Pract. Guide Repair & Maintenance Houses Gloss. 172 Rough rubble walls are sometimes termed rag work.