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🌀 Interlaced design 🧶 Knitting technique
entrelac

entrelac

9.9
A decorative pattern of woven bands used in borders
  • noun
  • /ˈɑːntrəˌlæk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : entrelac
  • Artists often use entrelac to create visually complex borders in illuminated manuscripts.

Examples

  • The museum displayed a tapestry featuring a beautiful entrelac pattern woven with silk threads.

  • The ancient book was decorated with gold and blue entrelac along its cover.

  • The entrelac design is my favorite!

  • Look at the beautiful entrelacs in this tapestry!

  • The ancient book was decorated with gold and blue entrelac along its cover.

  • The museum displayed a tapestry featuring a beautiful entrelac pattern woven with silk threads.

  • Artists often use entrelac to create visually complex borders in illuminated manuscripts.

Synonyms

interlacing
vsentrelac
5.9

Woven closely together to make a pattern

is a finished decorative design used for borders rather than the weaving action

How Intricate

filigree
6 9.8
arabesque
1 9.1
entrelac
  • Specialized
9.9
pattern
192 2.8
band
63 1.3

Surface Forms

entrelac singular
entrelacs plural

Etymology

Entrelac comes from the French word entrelacer, made of entre- meaning 'between' and a part like lace meaning 'to bind or weave'. So entrelac paints the image of bands 'laced between' each other, which is why the word names an interlaced decorative pattern.