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Embroidery and tapestry weaving : a practical text-book of design and workmanship (1912)

Christie, Grace · London : J. Hogg · leaf 67

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le.This is a systemof mass designingthat involves theproblem of mak-ing a pattern outof one shape, con-tinually repeated,and fitting intoitself in such away as to leave nointerstices. Thesimplest exampleof this is to befound in the chessboard, and it willeasily be seen thata great number ofshapes… … another example will be found (page i8r).Fig. 21 illustrates the same principle,further complicated by the repetition ofthe form in three directions instead ofin two only. A method of further enriching astraightforward pattern, covering a plain PatternDesigning

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