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 83
The first of these is a delightfully naive exampleof unscientific innocence, in which each interval is filled by two leavesside by side on separate stalks. The other illustrates a useful methodof breaking the monotony that is sometimes caused by all the leavesof the spiral running in one direction.… … THE use of the pure spiral probably originates in, and isperhaps most effectively illustrated by, a waving line paintedor scratched round the body of a vase. As soon as theartist has contrived to make the two ends of the spiral meet, withoutinterrupting the rhythm of the line, he has a continuous…
Decoration and ornament
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