tracery

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Amid this gentle drama, Jewett depicts the marshland, where “the lines of the creeks made a broad tracery whichever way one looked.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The masons have now moved on to the North Cloisters, where they will spend the next four years restoring elaborately carved tracery and Purbeck columns, bases and capitals that have split.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023

Yet, his exquisite graphite drawing positions a viewer behind an iron railing decorated with the elegant tracery of the king’s monogram.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023

Original tracery patterns made of thin strips of molding decorate the ceilings, with lattice in the living room and a chevron pattern in the dining room, which has a bow window.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2017

There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay