Wiktionary
n. 1 A design or pattern of interlocking or overlapping geometric shapes resembling a knot 2 Work involving the tying of knots. 3 An object composed of or using knots.
Usage examples of "knotwork".
The carpet beneath their feet was a multicolored Celtic knotwork pattern, dizzying to look at for very long.
The hall carpet was a deep rich purple, bordered in a subdued knotwork pattern in gold that was picked up in the wallpaper.
The street artistsI had seen them working earlier in the day and paid them no attentionhad drawn a primitive maze pattern surrounded by a knotwork border of interwoven colored lines.
And I ask only that you check your knotwork twice over, for last night when Betty came to service me and these other fellows in the Condemned Hold, she was saying that you had quite lost your enthusiasm for the job, and were looking for a position as a maid-of-all-work.
Patterns of deception and interlocking lies, as intricate as the knotwork between the universes.
Woven among all the dragon images were mysterious-looking runes and intricate knotwork patterns.
Runes and intricate knotwork, similar to what they had seen inside the Hall of Wizards, covered the stone floor.
Celtic knotwork tanned into her bronze skin and protected with blocker.
The door seemed to crawl with carven knotwork and fantastickal animals, lit and as if animated by the torch burning in a cresset of bronze to either side.
Off-white in colour and with a decorative scroll of blue knotwork along the rim of the bowl and around the middle of the pitcher, the items required a subtle approach.
Several times he saw where an enterprising cutter had left behind an intricate knotwork motif in the rock.
The surrounding perimeter was a solid rectangle of ebony, carved with a complex design of Celtic knotwork that represented infinity.
Sunken into the lintel of its arched doorway was a sizable ward, made up of intricate knotwork patterns etched into a bronze plate.
Celtic knotwork that was all the more distinctive because it was present by nature and not by artifice.
In a museum I came upon a reliquary from Monymusk, and there was piece of circular knotwork design on one of the bosses that I found disquieting.