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.

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Fretwork is used to adorn furniture and musical instruments.

Fretwork is also used to adorn / decorate architecture, where specific elements of decor are named according to their use.

Fretwork is a consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom.

Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.

In the 2000s: an anthology, Classical Kirkby, devised and performed with Anthony Rooley, on the BIS label, 2002 ; Cantatas by Cataldo Amodei, also for BIS, 2004 ; with Fretwork, consort songs by William Byrd, for Harmonia Mundi USA, 2005 .; Scarlatti Stabat Mater with Daniel Taylor, for ATMA, 2006 ; Honey from the Hive, songs of John Dowland, with Anthony Rooley, for BIS, 2006: and Musique and Sweet Poetrie, also for BIS, 2007 ; lute songs from Europe with Jakob Lindberg.

Finally it includes the first recording of ' Birds on Fire ' itself, a three-part piece by Orlando Gough written for Fretwork in 2001.

Fretwork was featured on the soundtracks of two Jim Jarmusch movies, Coffee and Cigarettes ( 2003 ) and Broken Flowers ( 2005 ).

Fretwork patterns originally were ornamental designs used to decorate objects with a grid or a lattice.

The doors of the mosques in Cairo were of two kinds ; those which, externally, were cased with sheets of bronze or iron, cut out in decorative patterns, and incised or inlaid, with bosses in relief ; and those in wood, which were framed with interlaced designs of the square and diamond, this latter description of work being Coptic in its origin.

J. Romilly Allen has identified " eight elementary knots which form the basis of nearly all the interlaced patterns in Celtic decorative art ".

File: Triquetra-Interlaced-Triangle-Circle. png | Triquetra in blue as part of an interlaced Christian Trinitarian decorative symbol.

Chinese pu vessel with interlaced Chinese dragon | dragon design, Spring and Autumn Period

File: Pu with openwork interlaced dragons design. jpg | Pu vessel with dragon designs

China | Chinese pu ( vessel ) | pu vessel with interlaced Chinese dragon | dragon design, Spring and Autumn Period.

Poor design and driver error were blamed for the crash ; in 1988, the space between the monorail tracks had been reduced at the southern end of the line to make room for the new Westlake Center, effectively making gauntlet / interlaced track.

A herb garden in an interlaced quincunx design was drawn by Gertrude Jekyll in 1907 but not planted until 1982.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.

One of several different HDTV formats that can be transmitted over DTV is: 1280 × 720 pixels in progressive scan mode ( abbreviated 720p ) or 1920 × 1080 pixels in interlaced video mode ( 1080i ).

In interlaced video each frame is composed of two halves of an image.

If an interlaced video has a frame rate of 15 frames per second the field rate is 30 fields per second.

The GIF Specification allows each image within the logical screen of a GIF file to specify that it is interlaced ; i. e., that the order of the raster lines in its data block is not sequential.

An interlaced image is divided from top to bottom into strips 8 pixels high, and the rows of the image are presented in the following order:

The indicator that an image is interlaced is a bit set in the image's header block.

Here the Tigris and Euphrates rivers lie above the level of the plain in many places, and the whole area is a river delta interlaced by the channels of the two rivers and by irrigation canals.

It is often interlaced with maxims and parables.

The Video section, part 2 of MPEG-2, is similar to the previous MPEG-1 standard, but also provides support for interlaced video, the format used by analog broadcast TV systems.

NTSC color encoding is used with the system M television signal, which consists of 29. 97 interlaced frames of video per second.

( This is a consequence of interlaced scanning that is obviated by progressive scan.

Peter Furhring, a specialist in the history of ornament, says that ( also in a French context ): The ornament known as moresque in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( but now more commonly called arabesque ) is characterized by bifurcated scrolls composed of branches forming interlaced foliage patterns.

* 50i is an interlaced format and is the standard video field rate per second for PAL and SECAM television.

* 60i is an interlaced format and is the standard video field rate per second for NTSC television ( e. g. in the US ), whether from a broadcast signal, DVD, or home camcorder.

Thus, there are depressive disorders, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder ( MDD ) commonly called clinical depression or major depression, and bipolar disorder ( BD ), formerly known as manic depression and characterized by intermittent episodes of mania or hypomania, usually interlaced with depressive episodes.

Tape-based DV variants, except for DVCPRO Progressive, do not support native progressive recording, therefore progressively acquired video is recorded within interlaced video stream using pulldown.

Progressive video can be recorded with interlaced delivery in mind, in which case high-frequency information between fields is blended to suppress interline twitter.

Frame repeating is similar to field repeating used in interlaced video, and is also called pulldown sometimes.

Such a video can be edited as either interlaced or progressive and does not require additional processing aside of treating every pair of fields as one complete frame.

Even worse, there are often two sets of component outputs, one carrying interlaced video, and the other progressive, or an interlaced / progressive switch ( either a physical switch or a menu setting ).

DVDs can either encode movies using one of these methods, or store original 24 frame / s progressive video and use MPEG-2 decoder tags to instruct the video player on how to convert them to the interlaced format.

With the new technology, lenses are printed in the same printing operation as the interlaced image, either on both sides of a flat sheet of transparent material, or on the same side of a sheet of paper, the image being covered with a transparent sheet of plastic or with a layer of transparent, which in turn is printed with several layers of varnish to create the lenses.

The track is interlaced ( overlapping ) to allow either the platform to be used for passenger trains or to allow wagons to collect stone from the adjacent dock.

Although the use of the term " frame " is common in informal usage, in many cases ( such as in international standards for video coding by MPEG and VCEG ) a more general concept is applied by using the word " picture " rather than " frame ", where a picture can either be a complete frame or a single interlaced field.

High-definition digital television ( see: HDTV ) today can be broadcast terrestrially or distributed through cable system in either interlaced ( 1080i ) or progressive scan formats ( 720p or 1080p ).

An arrangement of interlaced ribbons allows each block to act as if hinged to the next one at either of its two ends.