Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. [image-making processes and techniques]
6. writing (processes)
7. calligraphy (process)

Anotations

Scope note:

The art of creating elaborate flourishes to decorate the margins or otherwise blank spaces in a work of calligraphy. Especially common in European copybooks of the 17th and early 18th centuries, the technique often resulted in images of animals, plants or human composed of a single line, or having that appearance.