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How to use fretwork in a sentence

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The classic Guyanese house is constructed of wood and raised on stilts, painted white and decorated with intricate fretwork.
If you are already doing fretwork you should see if you can pick up any new tips here.
We bring eight hand-operated fretsaws and all the materials so people can make a piece of fretwork that they then take home.
When darkness descended we hurriedly cleared the kitchen table in order to commence our fretwork.
Joiners made fretwork by cutting away part of the wood to form a regular pattern.
Gold leaf Chinese fretwork details, moon gates and selected architectural artifacts add richness and interest to the boldly painted room.
Over the years I have had consistent problems with one company because the guy that does the fretwork answers the phone.
British influence, with wooden jalousies, wide porches, and patterned railings and fretwork, dominated urban architecture in the colonial period.
He is now ready to produce works of art, fretwork, toys, or special assignments.
The most important of these interstitial spaces are the gallery vestibules, which are emphasised by lace-like fretwork ceilings.
Much of the ceiling is fretwork, and fresco par-excellence, in gilded gold.
The rest of the furniture included a commode, two small pairs of open china cabinets, eight fretwork armchairs, four side chairs, and a pier glass.
Standing in gardens of bougainvillea and hibiscus, they are made of white wood, with shutters painted green or red, and verandas decorated with intricate gingerbread fretwork.
Most buildings are small-scale, ranging from Victorian wood and stone townhouses with large verandas and fretwork to newer, more hurricane-resistant concrete structures.
Although it appears that Ransom made Moorish fretwork from 1885 to 1898, his furniture work was apparently limited and concentrated toward the end of his active period.
At either end of the sofa there was a comfortable back rest, but the middle was comprised entirely of open, carved fretwork, which would be near impossible to lean against.
The distinctive open fretwork pediment of the mahogany case is associated with clocks made in or near Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Federal period.
There will also be a show of local crafts including fretwork, crystal glass, embroidery, dancing costumes, placemats, potted plants, flowers, and taxidermy.
To the credit of the resort designers, Rosa Khutor and Gazprom have avoided the twee fretwork excesses of Switzerland and Austria.
The fretwork on top of the sarcophagus is a carving of stone: a soldiers's helmet, a crusader's cross, a rose, and a laurel.
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Chippendale, in his book, gives very elaborate directions for preparing the wood from which this fretwork carving was to be made.
Chippendale snatched his fretwork in his brackets and the angles of his chairs from the Chinese worker in ebony.
I turned, and scarlet through the festoons of gleaming white glowed the fretwork of a pagoda.
It contained a fretwork basket, stained brown and still rather sticky with varnish.
This lantern clock, with brass dial and fine fretwork with floriated design, is inscribed Humphry Mills at Edinburgh fecit.
No passion of fretwork, or pinnacle whatever, I said, is in this Pisan pulpit.
Mother is going to give me a set of fretwork tools so that I can put fancy tops to my frames, etc.
Soon even this fretwork was gone, and there was no sign of it to be seen.
Through their fretwork planes, the continuing structure behind is visible, indeterminately vast and rambling.
Give a modern bookcase an aged feel by adding mouldings and fretwork panels and painting the whole lot.
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