fretwork

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Moving on to the guest room, Bauer points to a Fretwork wood wall panel above the daybed.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025

MacMillan — like Byrd, a committed Catholic — recently wrote “Ye Sacred Muses” for the King’s Singers and Fretwork, the viol consort.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023

On Wednesday night at the Library of Congress, music both old and new were featured on an alluring program by Fretwork and British countertenor Iestyn Davies.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2019

Entitled My Days, it sets Psalm 39 together with a particularly descriptive section from Gibbons' autopsy, and proved entirely worthy of the Hilliards and Fretwork, for whom it was composed.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012

Fretwork is very rarely seen, but the carved ornament is generally a foliated or curled endive scroll; sometimes the top of a cabinet is finished in the form of a Chinese pagoda.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick