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Lessons on decorative design (1888)

Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 137

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and adherence to plant growth—can be well fulfilled. Our lines must compose well,while the general growth of the plant must not beallowed to suffer. We must not have the stiff-growingplants adapted to flowing or spiral lines, nor thecurvilinear growth of trailing plants stiffened intounnatural… … ADAPTABILITY OF LINES TO SPACES. 123 ones, repeating the sides of the oblong, and vary-ing in length ; next, the horizontal ones, repeatingthose at the top and bottom of the figure; then, thetwo side curves, running from the central upright intothe angles, are introduced for contrast. Fig. 3 showsa…

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