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 212
number of its chambers it getsrelatively thinner, and retires before the central figure it gave birthto in its first form; very soon they are too distinct to be any longerunited. The child must leave its mother and learn to live alone,while the parent can only guard and cherish it at a distance.… … Fig. 29.—Frame Structures. with a surrounding spiral of less and less calibre, till it becomes tooattenuated to retain the character of a spiral, and another traditionmust succeed. I have chosen to illustrate this tale with a vine spiral,but we must not forget that any spiral of a simple nature is…
Decoration and ornament
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