Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 52
see notrace of the fret in the Mykenaean art, thespiral there being figured on stone ormetal, while the women wore flounceddresses with scale pattern. But in thepre-Persian age fret pattern weaving inborders was the standard design, as wesee on the coloured robes of the Par- GEOMETRICAL DECORATION… … m. mmm 61.—p. 82. 62.—p. 83. fret pattern with no difference except insquaring up thecurves. The sameis true of the quad-ruple spirals, whichappear likewise modi-fied; and this change seems to have led toanother simplified form,
Decorative arts -- Egypt · Decoration and ornament -- Egypt
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