ropework

ropework
a) The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike
b) A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture
See Also: ropeworker, ropeworking

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