Linenfold Panelling

Linenfold Panelling
♦ Decoration with appearance of a fold of linen, derived from a moulded rib multiplied and stopped.
(Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 413)
Note: from lignum undulatum Latin = wavy woodwork

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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