Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 66
—suchclose kindred do those various skeleton linesbetray. I have dwelt at some length upon rudi-mentary diaper forms, for reasons quite apartfrom anything intrinsically interesting orbeautiful in them, although they may be bothone and the other. More especially is thislikely if tender colours be… … Pattern Dissection. 21 monotony of the shapes. The Japanese some-times go so far as to interrupt the pattern,wiping out a bit of it here and there, anti-cipating, indeed, the softening effect that agemight impart to it. (Plate 14.) But it is more as a basis of design that wehave at present to…
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