单词 | knotwork |
释义 | knotworkn. 1. Ornamental work consisting of, or (as in Architecture) representing, cords or the like intertwined and knotted together. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > interlaced fretc1385 friar knots1488 chainwork1551 knot1638 Gordian knotc1660 meander1706 entrelac1723 triquetra1845 knotwork1851 strapwork1854 Celtic knot1865 snake-knot1866 aligreek1867 plaitwork1871 honeycomb work1874 strap-ornament1895 honeycomb1924 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. ii. 504 The interlaced knotwork..so favourite a device of Celtic Art. 1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. iv. 538 The common ornamentation vulgarly called Runic knot-work. 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Knot work, the term lately given to a species of ornament of great variety and beauty, met with in manuscripts, on articles of attire, on monuments, and in the architecture, of the middle ages. 1866–7 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. ii. 389 The borders themselves, with their varied sculpture of knotwork and rope work, seem decidedly British. 2. A kind of fancy needlework. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > knot-work knotting1697 knit-knot1703 sugar-plum1750 tatting1842 knotwork1882 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 312/1 Knot Work. This is an old work recently introduced from the continent into England..the modern Knot Work is made with fine silk on thread knotted over crochet cotton or cord, with its edging made with crochet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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