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A book of studies in plant form with some suggestions for their application to design (1896)

Lilley, A. E. V, Midgeley, W., joint author · New York : Scribner · leaf 99

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nches wide). colour, but even here considerable fineness of detail is possibleby the use of brass wire and pins as described in the chapteron wall papers (Chapter IX.). But although elaborately naturalistic details are possible(and also most popular) in printed fabrics, they cannot bedefended,… … Fig. 127.—Blackberrj. TEXTILES 85 evident that for this purpose the details cannot be too simpleand conventional. Moreover, as explained in the first chapter,naturalistic forms mechanically repeated over a space cannever make good ornament. Every tone and colour is, of course, printed from a…

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