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- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 17
A. GEOMETRICAL ELEMENTS AND MOTIVES. Geometrical Ornament is the primordial or oldest of the Elementsof Decoration. The implements of savages, and the tattooing of theIndians, prove this. The seam, with the thread running slant-wisefrom one piece to the other, may have been the original for…
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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