Analysis of ornament : the characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1873)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 31
may be an alternation of two or more simple figures, just as it may be a constant repetition of one compound figure ; for as it is in this case the group that is repeated, the group of figures becomes the pattern or unit of repetition. Geometric diapers are infinite, and by a judicious variation of… … ness— an essential quality for a floor. The diaper, then, is a uniform decoration of a surface : another general decoration analogous to it is a succession of stripes, of any character, or of colonnades. The colonnade consists of repetitions of continuous curves in the same direc- tion: it is the…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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