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The anatomy of pattern (1887)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 130

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, hexagon, or ogee, one-half the labour of designing and card-cuttingis saved. Naturally, the nineteenth centurymanufacturer has not been slow to adopt aplan so obviously economical. It has beensaid, that the idea of reversing a patternowes its origin to the circumstance that youmay double a sheet… … C F Kell Pliolo-Lith ^1 ate 34.

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