Flowing tracery
Bar tracery with uninterrupted flowing curves, typical of the 14th century; also called curvilinear tracery.FlushworkTrimmed (knapped) flint used with dressed stone to form patterns.Fluting ...
Flowing tracery of windows as seen in the latter period of the Decorated style.
Cusp
Projecting points in Gothic arches and tracery.
FLOWING TRACERY: another term for CURVILINEAR TRACERY. FLUSHWORK: the use of flint and dressed stone to produce decorative patterns commonly of blank arcading, worked in a single plane. FLUTING: a decoration formed of parallel concave mouldings (cf.
About the middle of the 14th century, in the arcade of the first storey of the ducal palace in Venice, flowing tracery is found, from which the ogee arch there was probably derived, ...
Varied techniques and patterns are given names such as plate tracery (built up in corsed layers like the framing walls), bar tracery (constructed of complex fragments of the total pattern), flowing tracery (seemingly freehand, curvilinear design, ...
 See also: Tracery, Architecture, Gothic, Curvilinear, Bar tracery
  
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