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Guilloche   Listen
noun
Guilloche  n.  (Arch.)
1.
An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.
2.
In ornamental art, any pattern made by interlacing curved lines.






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"Guilloche" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rotunda is burnt orange, with the guilloche below it worked out in turquoise green. Notice the great flower receptacles filled with ...
— Palaces and Courts of the Exposition • Juliet James

... which elements indigenous to the one art are transferred to the other. Thus we explain the occurrence, the constant recurrence of certain primary decorative motives in primitive ceramics. The herring bone, the checker, the guilloche, and the like are greatly the heritage of the textile art. Two forms derived from textile surfaces are illustrated in Figs. 351 and 352. In the first example shown, herring bone patterns appear as the result of textile combination, and in the second a triangular checker is produced in the same ...
— A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament • William H. Holmes



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