fretwork spandrels - were made with intricate cutwork, skillfully joined with Ball & Dowel or Spindle sections. The lacy scrollwork was first handcut, one piece at a time.
Fretwork: Ornamental woodwork cut to represent small interlacing fillets or trellis work.
It is usually made in a complicated, repeating, geometric pattern.
A favored technique of Chippendale in his Chinese period (mid-18th century) ...
Fretwork -- Ornamental woodwork, cut into a pattern, often elaborate.
Frieze Board -- A flat board at the top of a wall directly beneath the cornice.
Gable -- The triangular section of a wall to carry a pitched roof.
Fretwork - Decorative trim with a repeating pattern, typically found under eaves, in porches and within railings.
Gable - A triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof.
Fretwork
Interlocking geometrical designs cut from the piece's own wood and used ornamentally.
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Fretwork - Decorative perforated and carved timber. (Often bargeboards, valance, brackets and screens).
Frieze - Any horizontal band of decoration, but very often on verandahs in cast-iron or timber.
FRETWORK
Intricate cutouts in a panel or other decorative element.
FRIEZE
Decorative band or board between a cornice and an architrave.
fretwork, latticework, lattice - framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
mounting - framework used for support or display ...
wall with a coarse material such as hessian Balcony A cantilevered or bracketed platform projecting from a wall with access from an upper storey Bargeboard A sloping board fixed to the edge of a gable roof, often decorated by fretwork or ...
The Eastern (and possibly the earlier) practice was to set chips of coloured glass in a heavy fretwork of stone or to imbed them in plaster.
Whimsical Gothick detailing in English furniture is traceable as far back at Lady Pomfret's house in Arlington Street, London (1740s), and gothic fretwork in chairbacks and glazing patterns of bookcases is a familiar feature of Chippendale's ...
The designs are either painted or carved, sometimes as fretwork panels. The most celebrated Sumatran house type is that of Minangkabu which has the entrance set in the middle of the long side.
These two gable details illustrate how the triangular shape on cottages offered the most challenge and the most opportunity of expression to the Victorian fretworker or wood detailer.
 See also: Ornament, Architecture, House, Frame, Tower
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