blind-work

By the looser sort, who encamped about the tower all night, lights were seen gleaming through the topmost blind-work, only disappearing with the morning sun.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

They were shut on that evening, and were made, as they often are, with a small piece of Venetian blind-work let into them, also painted white.

First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Isabella Strange Trotter 1847