PATCHWORK

[noun] [U] - (the activity of making) cloth which is made by sewing together a lot of smaller usually square pieces of cloth with different patterns and coloursa patchwork quilt.a patchwork jacket.The old lady sat in the corner doing patchwork.(figurative) We looked out of the aircraft window down onto the patchwork of fields below.(figurative) Ipswich is a curious patchwork (= mixture) of the old and the new, a market town of pedestrianised streets and historic buildings alongside modern offices.