Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 158
n common : they all tend to cover the groundevenly—that is to say, no great part of it is unduly emphasised atthe expense of the rest; and we must treat ofthem at this stage inour tradition, because later developments of the spiral abandon thisprinciple and aim at a more centralised or pictorial… … XXXIII.Typical Diapeks. 152 ARBOR VITJB. the imagination, because competing manufacturers must make thefigures of their diapers and the sizes and distances of their semdsmathematically accurate, while in the best examples of both thedetails would constantly vary in every repetition. In arranging a…
Decoration and ornament
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