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Scrollwork in its strict meaning is rather different; the scroll is imagined as the curling end of a strip or sheet of some flat and wide material. It develops from strapwork , as the ends of otherwise flat elements, loosely imitating leather, metal sheets, or broad leaves rather than plant tendrils.
Typical early English strapwork of 1589, detail from the monument to Sir Gawen Carew in Exeter Cathedral French stucco, scrollwork and strapwork by Rosso Fiorentino in the Palace of Fontainebleau, 1530s. In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms.
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Scrollwork, ornament dominated by scrolls (motifs), found in a variety of artistic media; Scroll painting, a painting on a scroll (media) in Asian traditions, distinguishing between: Handscroll, such a painting in horizontal format; Hanging scroll, such a painting in vertical format
A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low-relief design. [1] Since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartuccia. Such cartouches are characteristically ...
The Joshua Roll, Vatican Library.An illuminated scroll, probably of the 10th century, created in the Byzantine empire. Scroll of the Book of Esther, Seville, Spain Ingredients used in making ink for Hebrew scrolls today
Scrollwork is a common feature of Baroque ornament, the period when string instrument design became essentially fixed. Carved lion's head on a Stainer violin. Below the scroll is a hollowed-out compartment (the pegbox) through which the tuning pegs pass. The instrument's strings are wound around these pegs.
Holbein stitch, a style of linear blackwork, is used to outline and emphasize the motif and to create surrounding decorative scrollwork. [1] Traditionally, Assisi embroidery was rarely executed in cross-stitch but was most often in long-armed cross-stitch.