Lettering in ornament; an enquiry into the decorative use of lettering, past, present, and possible (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 139
74. BACK OF A CARVED PERSIAN MIRROR FRAME. we are led to suspect a meaning in it; but his realopportunity came with the introduction of thesuaver cursive hand (ca. 1000), whose sweepinglines suggest, however executed, the stroke of theoriginal pen; and he seized upon it. It is inthis Neskhi… … 75- THE WORD ALLAH FORMING AN ORNAMENTAL DEVICE. There is clearly not anything like the sameelasticity in Roman or Gothic lettering as inArab, nor have we the mastery of those Easternornamentists over the signs and symbols withwhich we have to deal; but the lesson of theirwork ought not to be…
Lettering · Initials · Decoration and ornament
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