Beth and Bob Matney wrote:
My favorite example of ric-rac is the decoration on Bia's dress
(daughter of Cosimo I Medici, Eleanora's step-daughter) in the portrait
by Bronzino. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/b/bronzino/1/bia.jpg
That looks like rick-rack's sibling to me, not exactly rick-rack as I
think of it. The Bronzino example looks more like a straight band with
half-circle bumps off of it, alternating sides, rather than a wave shape.
It's very interesting, though.
--
Cynthia Virtue and/or Cynthia du Pre Argent
"Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw "Midsummer's Night's Dream,"
which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most
insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." -- Samuel Pepys, 1662
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