The jewel is bordered by strapwork à jour of opaque blue and white enamel set with table diamonds and rubies.
In actual detail it varies, according to its date and whereabouts, from something very much like Romanesque strapwork to the more or less trefoiled foliage typical of Early Gothic ornament, whether French or English.
A yet more usual plan with us was to make the strapwork in colour, as at Salisbury.
After the beginning of the thirteenth century, this strapwork is sometimes in colour, or points of colour are introduced in the shape of rosettes, etc.
Grisaille assumes in France the character of interlacing strapwork all in white.
These support the main entablature whose cornice and frieze are enriched, the one with egg and tongue and with dentils, and the other with strapwork and with leaves.
Tomb recesses, added later, with strapwork pediments line the chapels, and at the entrance to the chancel are two pulpits, for the Gospel and Epistle.
A simple pediment rises above the four central figures, surmounted by a crucifix and containing a carving of a sun on a strapwork shield.
Near the west end there is a good deal of fine strapwork grisaille evidently put there to light that end of the church in contrast to the dimmer light which must have prevailed at the east end when all the medallions were still in place.
A favourite design in Elizabethan woodwork is the interlaced strapwork (see illustration p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strapwork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
