Background Pattern
A regular or irregular background drawing executed by thin continuous, often intertwining lines with observance of a number of rules (lines have no gaps, thickenings in points of intersection and so forth) (fig. 1). It is a variety of guilloches.
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Fig. 1. Background pattern. 500 Ukrainian Hryven (2006)