Items made or carved from bone, considered collectively; (sometimes) spec. decoration made from carved or inlaid bone. Cf. metalwork, n.

Work consisting of an arrangement of shells in patterns for ornamentation; shells lining the walls of an artificial grotto.

Ornamental or decorative work resembling rocks or shells. Cf. shell-work, n. 1.

The art of working in feathers; also concrete (see quot. 1882).

The craft of rolling or curling narrow strips of paper and affixing them to a surface to create decorative designs; an instance of this. See quilling…

Ornamentation executed in or consisting of ice, or having the appearance of ice; frosted work, (also) ice sculpture.

a kind of ornamental work in which wafers were used to form a pattern.

see quot. 1960. Also filigree-work, n.

patterns worked in feathers.

paper cut into a desired shape, usually for decorative purposes. Also (with hyphen) attributive.

The art of working with feathers.

A drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface; a scribbling on an ancient wall, as those at Pompeii and Rome. Also, a method of…

(See quot. 1960.)

The art or craft of making or decorating items using paper; a hobby or pastime involving creative or decorative use of paper. Also as a count noun…

In full barbola work, decorative work composed chiefly of flowers and fruit modelled in a plastic paste and coloured, used to embellish small…

The art, of Norwegian origin, of painting wooden implements, furniture, etc., with decorative flower motifs.

Used attributively of the decoration of tiles: ornamented with sunken patterns surrounded by a raised outline.

Decoration on the surface of a piece of furniture, drawn with a pen. Cf. earlier penworked, adj.