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What (who) is Fretwork - definition

INTERLACED DECORATIVE DESIGN THAT IS EITHER CARVED IN LOW RELIEF ON A SOLID BACKGROUND, OR CUT OUT WITH A FRETSAW, JIGSAW OR SCROLLSAW

Fretwork         
  • Gable end fretwork
  • Timber fretwork
  • Fretwork for a ventilation or light grill
  • Gable end Fretwork
·noun Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, ·esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
fretwork         
  • Gable end fretwork
  • Timber fretwork
  • Fretwork for a ventilation or light grill
  • Gable end Fretwork
Fretwork is wood or metal that has been decorated by cutting bits of it out to make a pattern.
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fretwork         
  • Gable end fretwork
  • Timber fretwork
  • Fretwork for a ventilation or light grill
  • Gable end Fretwork
The extra work that goes into producing a news story, designed to make it that bit more worrying.
Every writer who got hold of the story added a little fretwork of her own.

Wikipedia

Fretwork

Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly used are wood and metal. Fretwork is used to adorn furniture and musical instruments. The term is also used for tracery on glazed windows and doors. Fretwork is also used to adorn/decorate architecture, where specific elements of decor are named according to their use such as eave bracket, gable fretwork or baluster fretwork, which may be of metal, especially cast iron or aluminum. Installing elaborate wooden fretworks on residential buildings, known as gingerbread trims, became popular in North America in the late 19th century.

Fretwork patterns originally were ornamental designs used to decorate objects with a grid or a lattice. Designs have developed from the rectangular wave Greek fret to intricate intertwined patterns. A common misconception is that fretwork must be done with a fretsaw. However, a fretwork pattern is considered a fretwork whether or not it was cut out with a fretsaw.

Computer numerical control (CNC) has brought about change in the method of timber fretwork manufacture. Lasers or router/milling cutting implements can now fashion timber and various other materials into flat and even 3D decorative items.

Examples of use of Fretwork
1. There are several bands before us, performing country numbers, keyboard solos, fancy fretwork, singers who lie on the floor and kick their legs around.
2. In May, the seminal blues–rock trio (Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Eric Clapton) re–formed and recorded a live album and DVD, "Live at Royal Albert Hall." Though Clapton‘s playing isn‘t as gritty as it once was (blame his switch from a Gibson SG guitar to the more elegant sounds of the Stratocaster), his fiery fretwork is boosted by the presence of Bruce‘s sonorous voice and the rolling thunder of Baker‘s drums.
3. Yet within a short hour, the interior of the house of lords was filled with one vast flame, casting its lurid glare far over the horizon, spreading over the silent Thames a vast sheet of crimson that seemed to smother the more feeble rays of the rising moon – bringing out the stately and majestic towers of the abbey in strong relief against the deep blue western sky, playing with seemingly wayward and fantastic scintillations on the inimitable fretwork of the Seventh Harry‘s chapel.