strapwork

A stylized representation of strips or bands of curling leather parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings and often interwoven.

Noun

  1. 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:

Origin

From strap + work.

Forms

strapworks