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The anatomy of pattern (1887)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 28

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The stripe, however, carries us only a veryshort distance in the direction of design. Forimmediately you make any break in the re-peated line, the recurrence of that break givesother lines in the cross direction. Suppose a series of horizontal bands brokenat equal intervals by a series of rosettes.…

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