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The anatomy of pattern (1887)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 118

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Plate 29. … iNKi-PHtTO, SPBAfUE *f lon; Skeleton Plans. 45 reveals the unit of the ornamental repeat; andout of the two contrasting schemes arisesa certain confusion, which is of some artisticaccount in design. Obviously, however, the most effective wayof disguising the skeleton is to clothe it, asnature does;…

Decoration and ornament

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