Crossword clues for openwork
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Openwork \O"pen*work`\, n.
Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
(Mining) A quarry; an open cut.
--Raymond.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several forms of metalwork or needlework having decorative openings 2 (context mining English) A quarry; an open cut.
WordNet
n. ornamental work (such a embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings
Wikipedia
Openwork or open-work is a term in art history, architecture and related fields for any technique that produces decoration by creating holes, piercings, or gaps that go right through a solid material such as metal, wood, stone, pottery, cloth, leather, or ivory. Such techniques have been very widely used in a great number of cultures.
The term is rather flexible, and used both for additive techniques that build up the design, as for example most large features in architecture, and those that take a plain material and make cuts or holes in it. Equally techniques such as casting using moulds create the whole design in a single stage, and are common in openwork. Though much openwork relies for its effect on the viewer seeing right through the object, some pieces place a different material behind the openwork as a background.
Usage examples of "openwork".
Lords and ladies looked again and again at his young wife on her white palfrey, its tail trailing and shimmering like her blue silk gown, the delicate openwork of its mane as dainty as the lace kerchief tucked between her breasts or her slender gloved hand which held the caparisoned reins.
Its brass top is decorated with an openwork pattern against a contrasting copper background.
Three-meter pillars of Italian alabaster around its edge supported a low dome of chiseled bronze openwork, and continued in a freestanding colonnade to the entrance.
He pushed his face up against the openwork side, saw the ground swaying twenty feet below.
Bandon said, eying the twenty-foot openwork structure of spruce strips propped on sawhorses made from peeled logs.
The heavy, gold-enamelled openwork frame stood out from the white wall, with the painting of the man in his dark clerical attire appearing to be painted on the wall itself, the whole giving the impression of three dimensions.
Woodwork devoid of paint or varnish, but carved in most elaborate and capricious openwork, the whiteness of the pinewood being preserved by constant scrubbing with soap and water.
She bent over the round mahogany table, the red-brown wood shone deep and warm under the openwork cloth.
Her plump foot seemed to overflow the side of the shoe a trifle, and through the openwork of her bright silk stocking the rosy skin of her ankle showed at intervals.
The entire stern was a spherical, openwork steel cage, just large enough to house a precariously standing man or woman.
The pillars and statues were replaced by lines of openwork holding cages.
Another code panel opened the waterproof hatch, and openwork stairs with drains beneath them led down into a dry, brightly lit room filled with the very latest electronic surveillance, code-breaking, and communications equipment.
We paused to catch our breath, looking down on a church with an openwork belfry of some patchy rose-pink hue, a rude and pretty touch in all the layered white.
He knew that people want to see their own spittle dripping from the lacy openwork of art.
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi allowed no cedar doors, no frieze beams or fine woods, no openwork or lacquering.