Ornamental design, embracing The Anatomy of pattern : The planning of ornament; The application of ornament (1888)
YYYb1b1aDay, Lewis Foreman, Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : Batsford · leaf 32
ay puttogether so many pentagons—and a very re-spectable diaper they form—especially if youfurther enrich thepentagons withfive-pointed stars.Not long since Icame upon justsuch a diaper,which, for a mo-ment, promisedto upset all myneatly arrangedtheories on thesubject of pat-tern anatomv Pentagon… … 16 The Anatomy of Pattern. pentagons put side by side, the intersticesbetween them ingeniously filled with starsand triangles, much as the pentagons them-selves are filled—so that one does not readilydistinguish between the parts. It wants notelling that shapes of any kind may be puttogether to…
Decoration and ornament
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