What is "flatwork"

Usage examples of "flatwork".

On the wall hung several framed examples of Indian flatwork, ranging in size from small, intricately quilled squares to full-sized blankets with geometric patterns.

She pulled towels and underwear out of the machine, and filled it again with light-colored wash clothes, compromising with conscience by deciding to leave the flatwork for Veda to do when she got a chance.

Everything was manual in those days, and everything had to be pulled wet out of the washers and extracted in a big Stonington wringer that held five hundred pounds of wet flatwork.