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openwork::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | piece of work, work |
Examples of openwork
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Up close they're like sheets of openwork lace or rippling water or a raked garden.
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The finial is an ornate gold openwork spearhead with the royal cypher in the centre.
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Here the interstices in the pierced openwork have been laboriously punched out by hand.
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The finial is a gilt bronze openwork spearhead surrounding a black and silver Iron Cross.
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The heads are typically flat cast plates with elaborate and complex openwork decoration.
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Openwork box lid, from Cornalaragh County, Monaghan, Ireland, is made.
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It is capped by openwork balustrading eatching the parapets which are from the 19th century.
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In the twentieth century reinforced concrete offered new possibilities for openwork spires.
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Behind the openwork hint, there is an oldest niche on which several assumptions were formulated.
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- Ornamental work (such as embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings
- Any one of many needle techniques including, Hardanger, Reticella, Pulled Thread embroidery, Filet Lace. A technique in which there are solid areas and also areas in which threads are removed by cutting or being pulled aside.
- Silver or goldsmithing technique: the portion of metal that is not essential to the design is removed and left empty.
- A general term for the decorative technique of cutting variously shaped holes through the body of a piece of silver, furniture or ceramics to form a pattern. See pierced decoration, lace work and reticulated
- Form of setting jewellery where the stones are set in an open design determined by the metal: the opposite to pave setting.
