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Studies in the decorative art of Japan

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · 1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · 127 pictures

A study of Japanese ornament by Francis Taylor Piggott, published in London by B. T. Batsford in 1910 for British designers and students of pattern. The plates isolate single motifs — interlocking key frets, swastika lattices, diamond-lozenge grids — as flat black-and-grey diagrams or soft pencil renderings, giving repeat units that can be tiled, scaled, or stripped to line for borders and surface pattern.

Decoration and ornament

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