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 55
emd of spots; sable, a diaper of crossedlines ; and though no compromise can give the charm of colour, theconstant gradation which is one of its qualities can be approximatelyrendered in this way. But we must never confuse colour with design.The utmost that colour can do is to enhance the feeling… … IN this chapter we shall continue to follow the further developmentof the spiral. We left it in potential infancy, already swelling like spring twigs at ruddy joints, ready to burst into verdantbud. We will let it do so, only noticing that for the present thespiral necessarily adopts a vegetable…
Decoration and ornament
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