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‖ cuerda seca|kwɛrda seka| [Sp., lit. ‘dry cord’.] (See quot. 1960.)
1911Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 973/1 The tediousness of the process gave rise, about 1450, to what is known as the cuerda seca (or ‘dry cord’) method, in which narrow fillets at the edges of the separating interlacings were first stamped upon the tile itself and filled with clay and manganese; these being fired (thus forming a ‘dry cord’ or line) formed shallow compartments which were in turn filled with coloured enamel. 1939Burlington Mag. Oct. 156/1 Tile⁓work glazed in the so-called cuerda seca technique. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Contin. Pott. 121/2 Cuerda seca, ‘dry cord’: a technique employed by Spanish tile makers in which lines were drawn upon the tile in a purple pigment mixed with a greasy substance which effectually separated the colours filled in on either sides of them, and disappeared during the firing process. |