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