filigrees
Intricate wire designs
Filigrees are delicate ornamental work made from fine twisted wire, typically gold or silver, formed into intricate patterns.
The term extends to anything similarly delicate and elaborate: filigrees of frost on the window, architectural filigrees.
As a verb, to filigree is to adorn with such work.
The word suggests intricacy that borders on fragility.
Decorative additions to something
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- traceryDecorative branching stonework
- flourishesProspers or ornamental strokes
- scrollsRolled written records
curlicues · arabesques · lacework · intricate · patterns · detailing · adornment · motifs
Craft using bent metal
- laceworkOrnamental open-weave fabric
- goldElement seventy-nine
- silverLustrous white precious metal
- scrollworkSpiral ornamental design
jewelry · delicate · intricate · ornamental · craftsmanship · soldering · granulation · tracery
Decorative additions to something
- ironworkObjects shaped from heated metal
- latticeOpenwork of crossed strips
- grillworkOpenwork of intersecting bars
- balustradesRows of posts supporting rails
screens · railings · arabesques · Moorish · tracery · decorative · facades · gates
Complex inner workings
- subtletiesSlight but meaningful differences
- nuancesSubtle variations in meaning
- complexitiesInterrelated difficult elements
- elaborationsExpanded explanations with detail
refinements · embroideries · details · flourishes · ornamentation · embellishments · artifice · elegance
ornamentation
Decorative additions to something
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- traceryDecorative branching stonework
- flourishesProspers or ornamental strokes
scrolls · curlicues · arabesques · lacework · intricate · patterns · detailing · adornment · motifs · fretwork
wirework
Craft using bent metal
scrollwork · jewelry · delicate · intricate · ornamental · craftsmanship · soldering · granulation · tracery · openwork
ornamentation
Decorative additions to something
- ironworkObjects shaped from heated metal
- latticeOpenwork of crossed strips
- grillworkOpenwork of intersecting bars
balustrades · screens · railings · arabesques · Moorish · tracery · decorative · facades · gates · window
intricacies
Complex inner workings
- subtletiesSlight but meaningful differences
- nuancesSubtle variations in meaning
- complexitiesInterrelated difficult elements
elaborations · refinements · embroideries · details · flourishes · ornamentation · embellishments · artifice · elegance · delicacy
- embellishesadorns, beautifies, decorates, ornaments, garnishes
- visual phenomenaoptical illusion, phosphenes, mirage, afterimage, afterimages
filigreesingots
Cast metal bars
slabs · monoliths · cast metal · forged metal · lumps
filigreesminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
austerity · bareness · unornamented · clean lines · unembellished
- gold filigreeOrnamental twisted metal threads
- silver filigreeOrnamental twisted metal threads