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After centuries without decorated capitals, they were revived enthusiastically in Romanesque architecture, often using foliage designs, including acanthus. Curling acanthus-type leaves occur frequently in the borders and ornamented initial letters of illuminated manuscripts, and are commonly found in combination with palmettes in woven silk ...
Don Quixote Guided by Folly, Setting Forth to be a Knight-Errant. 1780–1783. Woven in the workshop of Jacques Neilson at the Gobelins Manufactory, Paris. The Don Quixote tapestry series is a popular series of 18th century mural-scale tapestries illustrating scenes from the Miguel de Cervantes novel, Don Quixote.
Borders from the top:rice stalk, scorpion, pea, eye, wavy or bent, amulet From the top: shamuk taga, eye border, wrench border, miscellenious borders, wave border, diamond border. Most nakshi kanthas have some form of border. Either a sari border is stitched on, or a border pattern is embroidered around the kantha.
A rosette or cam-like pattern mounted on the spindle is controlled by moving against a cam follower(s) while the lathe spindle rotates. Rose engine work can make flower patterns, as well as convoluted, symmetrical, multi-lobed geometric patterns. The patterns it produces are similar to that of a Spirograph, in metal. No other ornamental lathe ...
Plate with gadrooned background from the Meissen porcelain Swan Service, ca. 1738. Gadrooning is a decorative motif consisting of convex curving shapes in relief in a series. . In furniture and other decorative arts, it is an ornamental carved band of tapered, curving and sometimes alternating concave and convex sections, usually diverging obliquely either side of a central point, often with ...
Gorga carving is made by outlining the floral or undulation motif onto the wood, and then the knife edge is placed at a cant, with the mallet tapping it along the line. To ensure a fine groove, a similar cut then is made with the knife and mallet canted in the opposite direction. [ 2 ]
Just Words. If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online! By Masque Publishing
Above the dado panelling in the entrance vestibule is early floral wall paper, divided into panels with vertical and horizontal border strips. Dividing this room from the central hall is a timber screen of half glazed double timber swing doors, flanked by similarly detailed half glazed sidelights and surmounted by transom lights. The glazing in ...