Strapwork

Strapwork
Also called rollwork
Architecture
Decoration formed by folded, crossed, and sometimes interlaced thin strip - suggestive of leather straps - either applied (usually glued) or carved in wood, stone, or plaster.

Strapwork.
A decoration often used in the late 16th and the 17th centuries. It comprises a strap like interlaced band of leather or a ribbon resembling material interlaced and used to connect various pieces of Iconography.

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A decorative motif of woven or interlaced bands of scrollwork that may be pierced with interwoven circles and ovals.
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strapwork: 16th-century decoration (France, Netherlands, England) of interlaced bands, like leather pieces slotted into one another.

STRAPWORK Decoration like interlaced leather straps. Late 16th and early 17th-century, or Victorian revival.

Strapwork
- decoration, usually on stonework, resembling interlaced leather straps.

Renaissance architecture arrived in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, having first spread through the Low countries where among other features it acquired versions of the Dutch gable, and Flemish strapwork in geometric designs adorning the ...

StoupVessel for holy water, usually near a door.Strainer archAn arch inserted in an opening to resist inward pressure.StrapworkLate 16th and early 17th-century decoration, like interlaced leather straps.

Strapwork - Elizabethan decoration on ceilings and screens that looks like cut leather.
Stringcourse - Projecting band of stone, brick or other moulding running horizontally along the face of a building.

STRAPWORK: a sixteenth and seventeenth century form of decorative patterning, used especially in carpentry, resembling interwoven strips of cut leather. STRING COURSE: a projecting masonry band running horizontally along a wall.

See also: Architecture, Ornament, House, Tower, Gable