Macramé
Mak-ruh-mey
-noun
an elaborately patterned lacelike webbing made of hand-knotted cord, yarn, or the like, and used for wall decorations, hanging baskets, garments, accessories, etc.
the technique or art of producing macramé.
—verb (used with object), mac·ra·méd or mac·ra·méed, mac·ra·mé·ing.
to make or produce using macramé: to macramé a wall hanging
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“Ruth van Cleve’s vinyl purse’s strap gave right away, but Kate Gompert’s thin but densely macramé’d [sic] strap held around her shoulder and she was pulled wrenchingly forward by the womanly apparition’s momentum as it tried to sprint up Prospect St., and the red hag-like figure was yanked wrenchingly back as the quality Filene’s all-cotton French-braidedly [sic] macramé’d [sic] purse-strap held, and Kate Gompert had got a whiff of something danker than the dankest municipal sewage and a glimpse of what looked like five-day facial growth on the hag’s face as street-tough Ruth van Cleve got a grip on his/her/its red leather coat, proclaiming the thief a son of a mafun ho [sic].”
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace