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diagonal rib

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diagonal rib
A rib crossing a bay or compartment of a vault on a diagonal.


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There are in access of a dozen different stitching methods, for instance cluster, cross over, Tunisian, cheek, crossed, knot, fence, mahogany, diagonal rib, star, stocking, rib, treble, fan, eyelet, braid and four sided stitch are the stitch you can learn, while knowledge of some of these stitch is a prerequisite before you start.
Yet the incorrigible flatness of Laskey's work is called to task by the process of twilling, in which the shuttle with the weft thread is passed over one but under two or more threads of the warp, giving the cloth a marked diagonal rib.
The word ogive is an architectural term that refers both to a pointed Gothic arch and to the diagonal rib of a vault, two of which cross at the vault's center.
 
 
 
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