An ornament known as the guilloche is found in many countries. From Wordnik.com. [Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-1883, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 437-466.] Reference
The sort of guilloche of interlacing circles was very generally used. From Wordnik.com. [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 05, May 1895 Two Florentine Pavements] Reference
The roses of ornament are often incorporated into this form of guilloche. From Wordnik.com. [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy] Reference
Among the few in colour, a preliminary mock-up had a fabulous complex guilloche of intertwining threads, which formed a centre roundel. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires. From Wordnik.com. ['Artistic Luxury': 100-Year-Old Bling] Reference
In addition, the floor was paved with a nice mosaic "carpet" in black, white, purple, and orange, representing central guilloche motifs, bordered by bead-and-reels that were lined by chevrons. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 5] Reference
Between the heads are placed bands of very plain guilloche, each band consisting of alternate three or four rows each, above and below concentric circles of imitation (coral?) bead work, all in low relief, and helping to fill in the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
Speaking generally, the design is formed by nine octagon figures, three by three, surrounded and divided by a guilloche cable band; the interspaces of the octagons are filled by four smaller square patterns, and the outer octagon spaces by 12 triangles. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference
The Ministry of Type comments (with a word new to me - guilloche). From Wordnik.com. [Davos Newbies] Reference
The guilloche-and-medallion wall came into public view only recently. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Greeks, and the most complicated form of the guilloche covered a whole. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
That means guilloche machined engraved metal and blued steel pomme hands. From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
Both versions feature guilloche engraving on the dials and strong baton hands. From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
This was outlined by a guilloche, or border of intertwining bands of brilliant colors. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
But her eyes also fixed on the fan's guards with guilloche and intricately set diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
The old mosaic's interweaving guilloche pattern can be discerned dimly through this hole in the wall. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Next to the guilloche border is a large blue-gray mosaic medallion, enclosing a four-lobed pattern known as a quatrefoil. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Features include a guilloche style te ... dealnews®, dealmac®, dealcam®, and dealram® are registered trademarks of dealnews. com Inc. From Wordnik.com. [dealnews - Today's Edition] Reference
The black guilloche dial features luminous hands and eight genuine diamond hour markers as well as a red-tipped seconds hand and a date display at. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
The black guilloche dial features luminous hands and eight genuine diamond hour markers as well as a red-tipped seconds hand and a date display at 4: 30. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
The purely conventional ornaments mentioned above -- the rosette, guilloche, and lotus-flower, and probably also the palmette, were derived from Egyptian originals. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
She was admiring the translucent, cobalt blue guilloche of a vanity case also adorned with a trellis of tiny rose-cut diamonds around beautifully scrolled initials. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
The dial-face comes encrusted with 263 brilliant-cut diamonds totaling to around 2. 5carats, counters made with guilloche and satin and 18carat white gold hour-markers. From Wordnik.com. [Luxurylaunches.com] Reference
It features a guilloche motif which was also found on a large collapsed fragment we uncovered last year (see Domestic Area: August 14-18, 2005; On site conservation: August 7-18 and August 21-September 3, 2005). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 4] Reference
On one side of the JLC 986 is guilloche engraved silvered dial with the time, subsidiary seconds dial, and a large "open" date display (not a fan of these panoramic open date windows, and look forward to this trend ending soon). From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
It does not have Tiles, Frames, Reliefs or Pen tools of full Excentro version, but it has a very affordable price point and is made for the users who need to create designs for occasional jobs or just to do some guilloche experiments. From Wordnik.com. [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] Reference
Besides, more complex circular and spiral decorations, in the form of the well-known guilloche and scroll, were made use of in Egypt during the sixth dynasty, or immediately after the Memphite dynasty that reared the larger Pyramids of Gizeh. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
The smaller dial numerals have been redesigned to give the whole a new balance; black or white, sunray guilloche worked and then lacquered, its face also elegantly matches the leather strap: Hermes Swift calfskin for white or Hermes lizard skin for black. From Wordnik.com. [Free Apparel News – Apparel RSS XML Feeds – Fibre2fashion.com] Reference
Is a simple but advanced tool that can create guilloche designs like backgrounds, borders or rosettes. From Wordnik.com. [MacUpdate - Mac OS X] Reference
Fabergé offered guilloche in about 140 colors. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Silver guilloche dial. 8 day power reserve. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
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