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thumb|300px|Typical early English strapwork of 1589, detail from the Peter Carew (died 1580)#Commemoration|monument to Sir Gawen Carew in [[Exeter Cathedral]] thumb|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. These may loosely imitate leather straps, parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings, and often interwoven in a geometric pattern. In early examples there may or may not be three-dimensionality, eit