How To Use Openwork In A Sentence

  • Each is a large openwork steel construction with a two-part structure consisting of a hefty table-height base supporting a second, somewhat larger element, which rises to a level slightly above our heads.
  • However, this cannot be verified because in England hard-stone boxes encased in an openwork gold frame did not have to be hallmarked if the amount of stone exceeded the amount of gold.
  • Hence the sharp-silhouette, "aerodynamic" form of the tall building and the sculpted figures of the heroic airmen crowning seven openwork arches, perpendicular to the main facade and comprising a distinctive portal. Gothic Stalinist Soviet Skyscrapers
  • It's used to create decorative openwork stitching on tightly woven fabrics such as linen and fine batiste.
  • The openwork piece will be about 3 metres in height and it is based on the Boor trees at Boor Tree Lane, which runs at the end of the park, along by the river.
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  • And if you peer between the razzle-dazzle of jewels to the metalwork, you find a wealth of design and technique, from engraving to damascene gold to the openwork carving on two 17th-century ceremonial maces. Glories of Gift-Giving Diplomacy
  • It is shaped of metal openwork, so that one can see into and through every facet of the figure. Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Modern Prophet: An Interview with Tony Kushner
  • To allow the heat of the burning charcoal inside to escape, the artist has cleverly used openwork on some of the stitching, flower, and leaf motifs.
  • Ewers and vases often combine unusual elements: eccentrically shaped openwork handles and covers on bulbous bodies with flaring, tapering, or segmented necks inspired by Near Eastern shapes.
  • Motifs that work better for paper embroidery include openwork designs, redwork and quilting motifs.
  • These designs were simplified in jade: round or shaped plaques were cut square; openwork or pierced and relief designs were cut as incised lines or simple relief on a flat surface.
  • Who made that openwork aluminum outdoor bench and chair set sitting outside the Reclaimed Space house? Dwell on Design Features More Brilliant Green Design Than Ever | Inhabitat
  • He makes columns and girders with an axe, shapes floorboards and shelves with a plane, cuts fine openwork and carvings accurately, giving as excellent a finish as his skill will allow.
  • A firing gantry scaffold, a long, reinforced openwork steel ramp, projected from a flat, empty deck close to the helipad. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • By the nineteenth century these glass liners were often made in a beautiful deep sapphire blue that showed through their openwork silver cages.
  • Christy, it looks like she did just that -- the full-length skirt was some kind of openwork, either knitted or crocheted you can pretty much do anything with knitting that you can with crochet, although some things are lot more difficult to accomplish. "Guy coughs up rusty, 30-year-old nail/Strangers dress guy suitably for his job/Teen knits duct-tape prom dress."
  • Carrying things over into three dimensions are Kim Cridler's openwork sculptures of wax, steel and glass, which, in one show, shared the gallery with mysterious assemblages by Italian artist Maurizio Pellegrin.
  • On this chatelaine, pearls dominate the decoration of the openwork black-and-white enameled gold chains.
  • They had blackened faces and hands and were holding up, as if to display it, a kind of openwork frame built up from short swords. Death of a Fool
  • At the time I guessed that the elegant, openwork frame was rather special, and in all probability “original,” meaning that the finished canvas had probably never been housed differently. Archive 2009-08-01
  • A piece nearly identical to the Houston chair, with a slightly more openwork back, was photographed at the Asante paramountcy of Agogo in the early 1960s.
  • -- Our illustration shows a third kind of openwork ground with one corner in damask stitch, of the square represented in fig. 105. Encyclopedia of Needlework
  • In San Felipe de los Herreros are the finest examples of openwork dresses and blouses, also found in Zacán, Tócuaro and Erongarícuaro. The artesanias of Michoacan - an introduction
  • Although their view was no longer as obscured by the bulk of the screen, laypeople were still prohibited, this time by an openwork iron grille, from entering the sacred precinct of the choir.
  • From his reliefs Tatlin went on to develop small openwork structures (sometimes hanging), and several other artists, including Alexander Rodchenko, created similar works in the years immediately after the 1917 Revolution.
  • Polychrome was used to produce jewelry with a lot of different themes using openwork motifs and several linked items.
  • This ratio, one of his own devising, has remained virtually constant in all of his cubic openwork structures.
  • She offered a more varied needlework curriculum of plain work, marking, openwork, and embroidery along with reading and writing.
  • It's used to create decorative openwork stitching on tightly woven fabrics such as linen and fine batiste.
  • Her sleeves came a little below the elbow, and both wore black silk "openwork" mitts that came half-way up the arm. A Little Girl in Old New York
  • She offered a more varied needlework curriculum of plain work, marking, openwork, and embroidery along with reading and writing.
  • Fig. 44 the openwork design of the Flemish; a formal Dutch pattern being illustrated in Fig. 45; whereas the heavy German floreated type is shown in Fig. 46. Chats on Household Curios
  • This type has a leaf-shaped blade distinguished by carved openwork designs.
  • We used eyelash, chenille, angora-type and openwork ‘dot’ ribbon.
  • These do not have openwork tracery on their hinges but have advanced to a distinctive new naturalistic style.
  • Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
  • The outdoor collection ILLU offers an openwork shelter in natural oak, from French forests. ILLU Outdoor Shelter from Bleu Nature
  • By the nineteenth century these glass liners were often made in a beautiful deep sapphire blue that showed through their openwork silver cages.
  • Rectangular stools carved in Douala in the nineteenth century bear the names of their owners carved in openwork designs, marking them as objects of personal possession.
  • She added elaborate long ear-rings and white openwork sandals with high heels.
  • In Thinking, a crocheted openwork of rusted wire bursts from a metal drum.

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