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Examples of fretwork
fretwork
To me a trench ought to have gewgaws, doodads, doohickeys, foofaraws and fretwork.
From the washingtonpost.com
Candles and votive sets feature 18th-century fretwork motifs in platinum detailing.
From the dallasnews.com
But his fretwork is positively astounding, a mind-boggling wonder that will floor you.
From the ocregister.com
Jazz guitarist George Benson's fretwork is worth watching from the front couple of rows.
From the suntimes.com
Just about every selection allowed him room to amaze the packed crowd with his fretwork.
From the ocregister.com
Fretwork wouldprovide instrumental music, Courtenay would give us poems.
From the independent.co.uk
Walls teem with intricate stucco carving that resemble ivory fretwork.
From the boston.com
A fretwork screen is used as a faux wall and an anchor for the sectional.
From the washingtonpost.com
A round tin, encircled with pretty fretwork, was an old heat grate.
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- Lattice: framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
- Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly used are wood and metal. ...
- Fretwork is a consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom. Formed in 1986, the group consists of six players. ...
- Interlaced ornamental woodwork, usually in a complicated repeating, geometric pattern. Often used in backs of chairs, beds, in china cabinet doors, or on table aprons and legs.
- Interlocking geometrical designs cut from thin wood and used ornamentally without contrasting backing in open fretwork and with backing in blind fretwork.
- Decorative perforated and carved timber. (Often bargeboards, valance, brackets and screens).
- An open or pierced woodcarving with an oriental influence, primarily used as a decorative element in Chippendale-style furniture.
- Carved ornamental detail that is open, often interlaced and incorporates Oriental themes; typical of Chippendale style.
- A design of usually angular interlocking lines, originating in ancient Greece. Engravers use fretwork for cut or inlaid borders. Also known as Grecian frets.
