Embroidery and tapestry weaving : a practical text-book of design and workmanship (1912)
Christie, Grace · London : J. Hogg · leaf 74
tead of beingdifficulties, can afford help in the way ofsuggestion and limitation. A bad designmay look as if it obeyed them unwillingly—a form is perhaps cramped, perhapsstretched out in order to fit its place,instead of looking as if it naturally fittedit whether the confining lines were thereor… … PatternDesigning Fig. 23. Pattern printed at Antwerp in 1601 by the greatDesigning house of Plantin. The draughtsman in thiscase had to draw a plant to fit a standard-sized engravers block, and he had a certainnumber of facts to tell about it; he drewthe plant as simply and straightforwardly…
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