Artistic technique that produces decoration by creating holes or gaps through solid material.
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The result was an openwork pattern heavily encrusted with beautiful fine embroidery.
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There is an openwork balustrade which surrounds the platform of the bell tower.
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To these beams are affixed the cross pieces that form the openwork sides.
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Most-andthese were the blackest-worelong white robes and fine openwork skull caps.
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Open street cars, open skies, and openwork shirt waists had arrived.
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For the saint, we could use neither the close embroidery nor the lace openwork.
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Some openwork minarets dominate them-whitespots above the prevailing dullness.
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Their higher tiers formed an openwork of girders through which lifts and staircases ascended.
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Miss Eunice, I wish you'd teach her that pretty openwork stitch you do so handy.
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Through the openwork beams of the ceiling I saw the slanting light of very late afternoon.
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She was quite shaking with the excitement, and pulled at her openwork mitts with smiling expectancy.
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Above this frieze, carved in openwork with extreme delicacy, was a marble basket, filled with red camellias.
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When this striped shell bar is finished, the blue threads are again united for the openwork figure.
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This portrait of a Salem minister in childhood is in jacket and trousers, with openwork collar and ruffles.
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Like our churches, it is sustained and protected by the arcades of its thin, light, transparent, openwork wings.
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No longer in detached flakes, but as though an openwork white cloth were continuously unrolled before one's eyes.