Handbook of ornament : a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-1927 · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 143
127 … A. BANDS. The group of Bands includes all those ornamental forms which are used to give expression to the ideas of bordering, framing, and connecting. The motives are partly geometrical, partly organic, chiefly plant- forms; artificial forms being more rarely used. The Band has no "up" or "down";…
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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