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 198
a semd by drawing a line round it whereverwe like. So we can, but in doing so we must remember that weare destroying the essential character of a sem^ and its main charm,which is the suggestion of an indefinite extension of its ornament,just as the sky gives one an idea of infinity peopled with… … XXXVIII. Enclosed Semes. 192 ARBOR VIT^. easily understand the paradox, that by adding to a thing you canmake it smaller. Infinity defined is infinity no longer. An unfinishedpattern suggests indefinite extension, for the same reason that themost satisfactory way of finishing a spiral, when it…
Decoration and ornament
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