Scrollwork is an element of ornamentation and graphic design featuring spirals 2

Scrollwork

Working with scrolls ,curls and curves

Compiled by Sylvo Schroeder SRS

All drawings SRS

Introduction

As long as I can remember I was always fascinated by scroll work – I would sit for hours and let
my eyes follow the scrolls leafs and other elements admiring how the craftsmen managed to
arrange to such perfection. Application of such elements in jewelry designing can be
fascinating but also very easily overdone – let’s see what this is all about.

What is scroll work? Scrollwork is a component of ornamentation and visual communication
highlighting spirals, which look like the edge-on perspective of a moved material parchment.
They were regularly made utilizing a parchment saw. "Scrollwork" is today generally utilized as a
part of well known dialect for two-dimensional enlivening twists and arabesques of different
types, particularly those with round or spiraling shapes.

The arabesque is a type of masterful improvement comprising of "surface enhancements taking into account cadenced
intertwining foliage, rings" or plain lines, frequently linked with different components

"Parchments" developed to be a more standard beautiful example in view of incomplete circles
and spirals, frequently turning out to be very natural looking, adorned with foliage, (for example,

acanthus leaves) and vines, sprinkled with different themes. Such examples were a key
component of traditional and medieval enhancement. Scrollwork (in the famous definition) is
most regularly connected with Baroque structural planning, however it saw utilizes as a part of
each beautiful application, including furniture, metalwork, porcelain and imprinting and jewelry.

Parchment was historically used for writing documents, notes or pages of a book.

Acanthus leave
Utilizations of scrollwork can be found in the volutes at the leader of an Ionic segment and the
cut look toward the end of the peg box on instruments in the violin family (taking after
fiddleheads in nature). The parchments are here and there so expounded that they think back
the tip of a Western crosier.

Peg Box

It was further reached out in Mannerism into strap work (ornamentation imitating pierced and
interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern), which regularly ended in
parchments. Consistent parchment improvement has a far longer history. The utilization of looks
in decoration configuration has been available since in any event the Bronze Age. The Palace
of Knossos at Minoan Crete dating to pretty nearly 1800 BC for instance features scroll
ornamentation

Corinthian capital

Renaissance strap work panel
Scrollwork is a method utilized as a part of cake finishing. "But a touch elaborate, scrollwork loans
a charmingly obsolescent quality to the sides or top of a cake.

Arabesque

The fundamental type of an arabesque is as represented above. The center
component is in a heart shape framed from 2 opposite volutes on stems, as per
graphics (drawing 2) - a number of further volutes, above, underneath or to the sides
are added. These lines as a scroll theme can be limitlessly extended to cover a surface

of many sizes and shapes, which in fact would liven up plain surfaces.
Try developing graphic patterns by yourself.

Engaving

See more of Master Engraver Sam Alfano http://www.masterengraver.com/jewelry_engraving.shtml
If you would like to learn more on this engraving work check out http://www.engraverscafe.com/content.php?305-
Scrollwork-drawing-class

How to draw an acanthus leaf https://youtu.be/hBgwdSkgC8I
In this introductory lesson.you’ll learn abrief history of the Acanthus leaf and discover its hidden architecture so you can
start creating your own designs. https://youtu.be/SFpajESeMYw
A scientific approach of drawing an acanthus : http://surfacefragments.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-draw-volute-or-
acanthus-scroll.html

Basic scroll work graphics you can use for practice and further development

3 Dimensional Scrollwork

Scroll work lay out

Variations of the same basic elements
Variation 1

Variation 2
Variation 3