AND KNOT-WORK 317 tion. The interlacing bands, which are very finely knotted up, in certain parts of the design spread out into* conventional leaf-like forms, a device which is carried still further in Fig. 372, a decorated initial FIG. 372. … letter from a Venetian early printed book. Sara- cenic damascened designs of knot-work are commonly decorated with floral enrichment, spread over the ground. A knot of French work of fifteenth- century date, inlaid in wood and ivory, is shown in Fig. 373, an example decorated with geometrical
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