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 70
IX.The Spiral with Buds. 6o ARBOR VITJE. in anticipation a tree, and in early forms of Art is recognised as thesymbol of one (fig. lo). What a poor sort of compromise withNature your modern artist thinks of such trees, with their stiff stem,their pair of stubborn branches, and half a dozen leaves!…
Decoration and ornament
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