Everything about Embellishment

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: EmbellishmentA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Fabrication of BiOCl with adjustable oxygen vacancies and greatly elevated photocatalytic activity by using bamboo fiber surface embellishmentInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Bach's ornamentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate AidCited 100 times
5. Go sideways: AppliquéA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Glossary of sewing termsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Coding Error or Statistical Embellishment? The Political Economy of Reporting Climate Aid

  Axel Michaelowa, Katharina Michaelowa · 2011 · World Development · 100 citations

• Embellishment of microfluidic devices via femtosecond laser micronanofabrication for chip functionalization

  Juan Wang, Yan He, Hong Xia · 2010 · Lab on a Chip · 84 citations

• Effects of spacing and embellishment on memory for the main points of a text

  Lynne M. Reder, John R. Anderson · 1982 · Memory & Cognition · 79 citations

• Selenium and vitamin E supplements for prostate cancer: evidence or embellishment?

  Mark A Moyad · 2002 · Urology · 63 citations

• Embellishment of Upconversion Nanoparticles with Ultrasmall Perovskite Quantum Dots for Full‐Color Tunable, Dual‐Modal Luminescence Anticounterfeiting

  Kaimin Du, Manli Zhang, Yao Li · 2021 · Advanced Optical Materials · 53 citations

• Exopolysaccharides directed embellishment of diatoms triggered on plastics and other marine litter

  Mohd Jahir Khan, Ramesh Singh, Kunal Shewani · 2020 · Scientific Reports · 38 citations

• Is “chart junk” useful? An extended examination of visual embellishment

  Huiyang Li, Nadine Moacdieh · 2014 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 35 citations

• Artistic QR Code Embellishment

  Yi‐Shan Lin, Sheng‐Jie Luo, Bing‐Yu Chen · 2013 · Computer Graphics Forum · 33 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Fabrication of BiOCl with adjustable oxygen vacancies and greatly elevated photocatalytic activity by using bamboo fiber surface embellishment

  Hongru Liao, Chun Liu, Junbo Zhong · 2022 · Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects · 32 citations

• Aminoimidazole ionic liquid (IL) embellishment of nanofiltration (NF) membrane to simultaneously enhance heavy metals rejection and permeability

  Ding Yu Xing, Qi Shen, Siyi Tao · 2023 · Desalination · 30 citations

• Ecocide Before the International Criminal Court: Simplicity is Better Than an Elaborate Embellishment

  Danuta Palarczyk · 2023 · Criminal Law Forum · 15 citations

• Surface embellishment accelerates the oxygen evolution reaction and removal of organic pollutant using solvothermally designed Co2O3/CuO nanocomposite

  Khaled Fahmi Fawy, Karam Jabbour, Muhammad Faheem Ashiq · 2023 · Surfaces and Interfaces · 7 citations

• All that Glitters is Not Gold! Could M&As Post‐Bank Reforms be Just a Tool for Balance Sheet Embellishment?

  Doriana Cucinelli, Federica Ielasi, Simona Zambelli · 2024 · British Journal of Management · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Bach's ornamentsWalter Emery · 1953
• The embellishments of musicLouis Arthur Russell · 1894
• Musical ornamentationEdward Dannreuther
• 📕Ein Beitrag zur OrnamentikHeinrich Schenker · 1903
• Studies in Musical GracesErnest Fowles · 1907
• 📕Treatise on the ornaments of musicGiuseppe Tartini · 1956
• 📕Metodo per organoFernando Germani · 1951
• 📕Ornamentik in Beethovens KlavierwerkenH. Ehrlich · 1897

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• Glossary of sewing terms This glossary contains terms used in sewing, tailoring and related crafts. For terms used in the creation or manufacturing of textiles, including spinning…
• Tambour lace Tambour lace refers to a family of lace made by stretching a fine net over a frame (the eponymous tambour, from the French for drum) and creating a chain…
• Cutwork Cutwork or cut work, also known as punto tagliato in Italian, is a needlework technique in which portions of a textile, typically cotton or linen, are…
• Machine embroidery Machine embroidery is the process of using a sewing or embroidery machine to create decorative stitching on fabric. It is widely used in commercial branding…
• Bead embroidery Bead embroidery is a type of beadwork that uses a needle and thread to stitch beads to a surface of fabric, suede, or leather. Bead embroidery is an embellishme…
• Trim (sewing) Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament, such as gimp, passementerie, ribbon, ruffles, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament…
• Soutache Soutache (/suːˈtæʃ/, soo-TASH), also known as Russia braid, is a narrow flat decorative braid, a type of galloon, used in the trimming of drapery or clothing…