fretwork

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The most attractive features of a lantern clock are the pierced decorative fretwork panels that sit on the front and sides of the case in the space between the bell and the dial.

FRIDAY, MAY 15 St Augustine's Church, Penarth (7.30pm) Fretwork Experience the bright new surface of contemporary music refracted through the warm dark glow of a 16th Century consort of viols with the renowned Fretwork.

Now in a completely revised and significantly expanded new edition, the "Complete Book of Gourd Carving: Ideas and Instructions for Fretwork, Relief, Chip Carving, and Other Decorative Methods" by gourd craft experts Jim Widess and Ginger Summit is a profusely and beautifully illustrated, 224 page compendium that is an essential guide to gourd carving and specifically addressing every method and style of the art.

Give a modern bookcase an aged feel by adding mouldings and fretwork panels and painting the whole lot.

Today you can find ceramic garden seats sheathed in shimmering gold or silver metallic paint, but a consistent design feature is the fretwork or pierced motif.

Prescott has a large trellis design and Allison is inspired by the scrolling fretwork of a delicate iron.

There were prizes for best decorated boat and best crew Pictured (left) Richard Searson, of Meltham, displays his FRETWORK tmc100913water1

Dark wood, glass and oriental-style wooden fretwork panels abound, with vibrant greens and cerise pinks adding a splash of colour.

An exhibition of calligraphers, gilding, as well as metal fretwork specialists entitled A1/2The Holy Koran in the light of Iranian arte has opened in Astana.

Measuring just shy of 10ins in diameter, and dating from the third quarter of the 19th century, according to the catalogue description, the top of the table is decorated with elaborate fretwork, set with panels depicting Hindu deities, while the central turned horn column and base have fretwork and penworked decoration, the whole standing on carved ivory paw feet.

In what transpired as a love-in for guitarists, with more frenzied fretwork than you could shake a plectrum at, the colourful sight of Tubelord (complete with Michael Jackson shrine) kept the momentum going.

The walnut wood has a unique color, grain and sheen and the carving and fretwork done on it is of the finest quality.

The fact is, there's some absolutely fantastic fretwork happening in these songs, and some amazing shifts in tone and tempo that have to be admired.