Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ......................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary .........................
Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Tracery
TRAY sir ee
ArchitectureAn ornamental arrangement of intersecting ribwork, usually in the upper part of a Gothic window, forming a pierced pattern
If applied to a solid wall surface, known as blind tracery
Net (reticulated) tracery: Gothic tracery consisting mainly of a netlike arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.
Patterns formed in tracery: Trefoil ... Quatrefoil ... Cinquefoil ... Sexfoil ... Multifoil
See also Church Vocabulary
FurnitureAlso found in furniture.
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above: St. Paul's Cathedral Net tracery
- 479 Delaware Ave., Midway
- Wicks House
- St. Louis Church
- Williams-Pratt House
- Alexander Main Curtiss House
- Church of the Advent
- St. John's Grace Episcopal
- St. Frances de Sales RC Church
- Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
- Dr. Charles Cary House, 340 Delaware Ave.
Other examples:
- St.-Denis Abbey, Paris, France
- Church of St. Mary (Kosciol Mariacki), Cracow, Poland
- Furniture: Back of hall chair - Winterthur Museum
