Definition of Strapwork. Meaning of Strapwork. Synonyms of Strapwork

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Definition of Strapwork

Strapwork
Strapwork Strap"work`, n. (Arch.) A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.

Meaning of Strapwork from wikipedia

- In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms. These may loosely imitate leather...
- Title page of first edition of Part I of Don Quixote (1605), featuring the motto Post tenebras spero lucem on the strapwork around the central device...
- floor. It is designed in Tudor Revival style with a plaster ceiling, strapwork, and floral and foliage motifs. The bar room contains walnut woodwork...
- handicraft objects, consisting of angled lines that form an interlaced strapwork pattern. Girih decoration is believed to have been inspired by Syrian...
- spandrel (yellow line). Construction decagons blue, bowties red. The strapwork cuts across the construction tessellation. Analysis of octagonal patterns...
- asymmetrical fronts and picturesque m****ing Flemish mannerist sunken panels of strapwork deeply shadowed entrances broad porches overall, a domesticated free Renaissance...
- The Tudor style is continued in the building's lobbies, which include strapwork, oak panels, and slate flooring. The building was added to the National...
- A strapwork heraldic console, fashionable in the second half of the 16th century...
- elements like columns and obelisks. Architectural detail and decorative strapwork patterns derived from continental engravings, especially the prints of...
- leather"), or else from the fact that the boot was laced or tied on (ligere). Strapwork styles varied from maker to maker and region to region. The placement...