Scotia \ˈskō-sh(ē-)ə, -tē-ə\: A hollow moulding used especially in classical architecture in the bases of columns. While the term “scotia” (which means “darkness”) is sometimes used to refer to any hollow moulding, some sources use the term to apply to hollow mouldings that describes more than a quarter-circle, which is properly called a cavetto.
Come Monday morning, I’ll be immersed in teaching a sawing class at the Dictum workshop at Niederaltaich. So I took off to Regensburg today with Ute Kaiser of Dictum and her partner, Stefan, to see the city.
The highlight for me, as always, involved food. We visited The Sausage Kitchen, which has sold sausages for more than 1,000 years. As we ate, we looked out over the famous bridge Steinerne Brücke. The Roman soldiers who built the bridge ate at The Sausage Kitchen, and the bridge itself carried the soldiers from the 2nd and 3rd Crusades.
While that makes you feel insignificant, the sausages make up for it.
— Christopher Schwarz
flutes: A channel or furrow in a pillar, resembling the half of a flute split longitudinally, with the concave side outwards. Some authorities refer to Doric columns as “channeled” because they have a sharp arris at the meeting of the edges of each flute. They suggest that flutes require fillets between them to be real flutes.
cavetto: \kə-ˈve-(ˌ)tō, kä-\
A hollowed moulding, whose profile is one-quarter of a circle. It is principally used in cornices. A cavetto that flows from and terminates a straight line is called a conge, or sometimes an apophyge.
egg and dart: An ornamental device often carved in wood, stone or plaster quarter-round ovolo mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow, anchor or dart. Some historians contend this ornamental device is supposed to represent the duality of life (the egg) and death (the arrow).