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 202
Other meanings as well. We speak, for instance, of the frameworkof a house, the bodily frame, and even of a frame of mind. Iuse it here in the sense of a pattern enclosing a clearly defined FRAMES. 195 … Fig. 28, b.—The Frame Alone as a Form of Ornament. space, without regard to what it may be made of, or to what useit may be put. That, of course, is an important question; but,first of all, let us see if a frame is not a possible form of ornamentby itself. Long ago we led the spiral round corners,…
Decoration and ornament
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