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decorative carving that proves humans will turn empty space into art too
means Ornamental openwork or carved patterns made of interlacing lines and pierced shapes, used to decorate wood, stone, or metal.
from Built on the verb 'fret,' which in this sense means to ornament or interlace with a pattern of carved or cut work — a different fret from the gnawing-worry kind, though both descend from old Germanic roots about eating or wearing away. The decorative 'fret' (think the repeating geometric border called a Greek fret or key pattern) likely came through Old French 'frete,' an interlaced ornament. 'Fretwork' simply adds '-work' to name the finished craft: the labor of patterned cutting.
- hidden math
- Islamic fretwork encoded geometry centuries before Western mathematicians named it
- sound trick
- Carved screens let women watch courts unseen and unheard
- name origin
- From Old French frete, meaning interlaced or trellised
- guitar cousin
- Frets share the word but not the woodworking
bath abbey ceiling — ornamental stone fretwork in the 16th century english perpendicular gothic church, bath
jali screens agra fort — intricate marble fretwork lattice screens in the 16th century mughal palace, india
forbidden city dragon screens — carved wooden fretwork panels depicting dragons in beijing's imperial palace, china