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Needlework as art (1886)

Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 173

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lily,repeated, will make an ecclesiastical conventional pattern.Then come all the Arabian and Moresque forms (whichare mostly geometric), and also the Gothic (which arepartly geometric and partly naturalistic, especially thosein German and debased Spanish and Portuguese Gothicdesign). Then we must… … j>y (Wilkinsons AncientEgyptians/) 9. Key and Sun Cross. Page 97. Patterns. 97 fragments of old motives, repeated or radiated so as tobecome partly geometrical, wholly conventional. (See PI.17, No. 2.) Conventional patterns may be reduced into three kinds. First, the naturalistic, which have by…

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