A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
An ornamentation of crossed, interlaced and scrolled straps resembling leather often used to decorate walls in the 17th century.
A carved wooden arabesque pattern having a flat stem of a sroll in section and/or an ornament which resembles a pattern cut from a sheet of leather. An interlaced pattern which resembles a crisscross folded or plaited design which might be created from strips of leather. Elizapethan an Jacobean carved-wood decorated panels with ribbon-like bands repeating and interlacing designs. In the Chippendale period, flat and sometimes elaborately carved strapwork was used for the splats of chairs.
Interlacing pattern resembling straps.
An interlacing design resembling straps.
Thick twisted, curved and intertwined strips based on ribbon or leather often combined with arabesques and cartouches. Primarily used in Renaissance Revival wallpapers.
Interlaced geometric and arabesque decoration in low relief, often applied in fretted strips to Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and made up from patterns in Dutch pattern books.
In the history of art and design, the term strapwork refers to a stylised representation of strips or bands of curling leather. Strapwork is a frequent element of grotesques -- arabesque figures filled with fantastical creatures, garlands and other elements -- which were a frequent decorative motif from the Renaissance to the 19th century and which may appear on walls -- painted, in frescos, carved in wood, or molded in plaster or stucco -- or in graphic work. The term strapwork is used to distinguish it from floral garlands or other decorative elements.
