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 188
xcept in regard to the stems,which we should keep quite thin to begin with. We can consequentlynow design any number of arabesques by simply repeating, reversing,or crossing a favourite spiral ; or by letting one spiral meander incareless elegance over the whole ground we wish to cover. In… … XXXVI.Typical Arabesques. 182 ARBOR VITJE. of the stem. These are naturally the most organic forms that anarabesque can assume, and in drawing them we must be carefulto keep the design from becoming centralised and symmetrical. Wemust not forget that the first condition of all these types of…
Decoration and ornament
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