strapwork
nounEtymology From strap + work.
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Art, Arts Historical, Usually A stylized representation of strips or bands of curling leather parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings and often interwoven.
- It has a geometrical strapwork interlace of linked octograms with central eight-pointed stars.1981, Gulnar Kheirallah Bosch, Islamic Bindings & Bookmaking: