strapwork

[ strap-wurk ]

/ ˈstræpˌwɜrk /

a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.

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On the entablature, enriched with medallions and strapwork, is a frame supported by boys and containing the da Silva arms.
Portuguese Architecture|Walter Crum Watson
Most elaborate of all is the barrel vault, where each coffer is filled with round or square panels surrounded with strapwork.
Portuguese Architecture|Walter Crum Watson
Just a little patch of strapwork in the middle of the waste.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
This attic is panelled, and on it stand obelisk-bearing pedestals, one above each column, and between them pediments of strapwork.
Portuguese Architecture|Walter Crum Watson

We find acanthus ornament in wood and in metal, the strapwork of the Tudor carver on wood and on silver.
Chats on Old Sheffield Plate|Arthur Hayden