Compare, for example, the incipit pages of the Gospel of Matthew in the Lindisfarne Gospels and in the Book of Kells, both of which feature intricate decorative knot work patterns inside the outlines formed by the enlarged initial letters of the text.

Note the intricate decorative work.

The colours, shapes and the many different intricate decorative patterns all having specific meanings, most of them forgotten today.

Due to the intricate designs, lovespoons are no longer used as functioning spoons and are now decorative craft items.

The decorative highlight of Cape Cod homes is the front door, which is painted in distinct colors, bears an ornament or wreath, and has intricate carving.

As time passed, traditional temari became an art, with the functional stitching becoming more decorative and detailed, until the balls displayed intricate embroidery.

Allied with punk and hardcore culture and the DIY aesthetic associated with these movements, Smith draws on traditions of decorative art to produce visually complex, labor-intensive pictures characterized by intricate patterns and vivid coloration.

Notable architectural features include arches on its upper level, an intricate timber arcade with a mixture of eastern and western decorative motifs, and a Chinese moon gate ( a circular gateway ) on the building's second floor.

The mosque is located at the distance of 200 kilometers from Bahawalpur and 50 kilometers from Rahim Yar Khan and is well known for its exquisite design and architectural beauty with gold leaves carved for the intricate decorative patterns and the stylish calligraphic work.

It is decorative, often with intricate designs.

In period III, the finds becomes much more abundant as the potter's wheel is introduced, and they show more intricate designs and also animal motifs.

The characteristic female figurines appear from Period IV and the finds show more intricate designs and sophistication.

Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits — often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century.

These types of paintings were far more demanding than the informal portraits upon which Anguissola had based her early reputation, as it took a tremendous amount of time and energy to render the many intricate designs of the fine fabrics and elaborate jewelry associated with royal subjects.

Older designs, especially through the early 1900s, tend to use fine white or ivory thread ( 50 to 100 widths to the inch ) and intricate designs.

Rococo still maintained the Baroque taste for complex forms and intricate patterns, but by this point, it had begun to integrate a variety of diverse characteristics, including a taste for Oriental designs and asymmetric compositions.

The lighthearted themes and intricate designs of Rococo presented themselves best at a more intimate scale than the imposing Baroque architecture and sculpture.

He turned his fluid line to designs ranging from intricate jewellery to monumental frescoes.

The number of basic origami folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs.

The engravers, no less affected by the Renaissance than were other artists, began creating intricate and elaborate designs featuring the heraldic arms and standards of the minting state as well as brutally realistic, sometimes unflattering, depictions of the ruler ( monarch ).

Unlike expressionist films, Kammerspielfilme are categorized by their chamber play influence, involving a lack of intricate set designs and story lines / themes regarding social injustice towards the working classes.

* carving chisels: used for intricate designs and sculpting ; cutting edges are many ; such as gouge, skew, parting, straight, paring, and V-groove.

In 1794 Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price simultaneously published vicious attacks on the ' meagre genius of the bare and bald ', criticising his smooth, serpentine curves as bland and unnatural and championing rugged and intricate designs, composed according to ' picturesque ' principals of landscape painting.

This is because flat-topped skyscrapers are not as common in the modern era as skyscrapers with intricate spire designs and parapet features atop their roofs, making it more difficult to define a roof on a building.

It is possible to create surprisingly artistic designs, be they simple or intricate in nature.

The difference between ancient and modern braiding: Nowadays, as well as the colorful beads and intricate designs of our ancestors, hair weaving has become part of the traditional braiding technique.

While they are mostly regarded as children's toys in Europe, in the U. S. they are available in intricate designs and are used to decorate objects.

Mariachis frequently wear ornate costumes with intricate embroidery and beaded designs, large brimmed sombreros and the short charro jackets.

Normally many colored yarns are used and this process is capable of producing intricate patterns from pre-determined designs ( although some limitations apply to certain weaving methods with regard to accuracy of pattern within the carpet ).

" Censing baskets " were globes of hollow metal, pierced with intricate floral or animal designs ; within the globe, an iron cup, suspended on gimbals, contained the burning incense.

Originally planted with hundreds of thousands of annuals in intricate designs, the parterres are now more simply planted.

Featuring open garden rooms, intricate tile designs, water features and sculpture, the designs were influenced by the Moors.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

These vivid, intricate, and colorful sand creations were erased at the end of the ceremony.

Though Vesalius ' work was not the first such work based on actual autopsy, nor even the first work of this era, the production values, highly detailed and intricate plates, and the fact that the artists who produced it were clearly present at the dissections themselves made it into an instant classic.

Wood presses featuring intricate decoration were used to press the butter into pucks or small bricks to be sold at a nearby market or general store with the decoration identifying the farm which produced the butter.

So intricate is the coastline that the voyage along its shores was estimated at nearly four times the direct distance.

Stephen J. Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, at a 1986 academic conference of Joyceans in Copenhagen, said “ If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry.

It is clear that the entire process is completely foreign to Australian lawyers as the author witnessed an examination for discovery in Toronto and outlines in intricate detail the rules in Ontario as they were in effect at that time.

The bells were rung at mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, during births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times ; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing the mission bells.

They were rung to mark mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, to mark births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times ; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing of the mission bells.

The bells were rung at mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, during births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times ; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing the mission bells.

There are various kinds of figures ranging from the very simple ( e. g. a couple changing places across the set giving right hands ) to fairly intricate convolutions involving three or four couples at the same time ( e. g. three-couple rights and lefts ).

Shortly after abandoning an intricate Pet Sounds-style version of Kern and Hammerstein's " Ol ' Man River " at the behest of Mike Love, Wilson entered a psychiatric hospital for a brief period of time and " perhaps of his own volition "; biographer Peter Ames Carlin has speculated that Wilson may have been administered a number of treatments — ranging from talking therapies to " stiff doses of Lithium " and the more extreme electroconvulsive therapy — during this stay.

The bells were rung at mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, during births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times ; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing the mission bells.

This feature heavily influenced the development of human society on the planet, as humans forced to take shelter in these caves eventually developed an intricate culture associated with cave-dwelling in a feudal society at a medieval to Renaissance level of technology.

Oeben's distinguished marquetry appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished at his death ; it was finished and delivered in 1769, signed by Jean Henri Riesener, but it was Oeben who devised its intricate mechanisms.

The sections on Treblinka include testimony from Abraham Bomba, who survived as a barber, Richard Glazar, an inmate, and a rare interview with Franz Suchomel, an SS officer who worked at the camp who reveals intricate details of the camp's gas chamber.

This effect was achieved not by magnetics ( like in a compass ), but through intricate mechanics, the same design that allows equal amounts of torque applied to wheels rotating at different speeds for the modern automobile.

This intricate 26-cm-high sculpture, of a value conservatively estimated at 58, 000, 000 schilling, was commissioned by Francis I.

Many episodes concern breaches of intricate aspects of social conventions, such as the various details of tipping at restaurants, the obligation to " stop and chat " upon meeting an acquaintance, the allowed amount of caviar one may put on a cracker at a house party, whether a house guest needs the permission of the homeowner before taking a soft drink from the refrigerator.