• n. A term, taken from the Italian, denoting a kind of ornamental decoration, usually used in sculpture and architecture, but which can be applied to textile decoration. It consists of a vegetable decoration in which some types of leaves as acanthus or tendril ones are shown in vertical stripes or columns.

• Motif

• Meyer, Franz Sales. Manual de la Ornamentación. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1929

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