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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 116

An illustration from Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work, 1904, leaf 116 — furrow it with rings,perhaps pleasing enough to be left as ornament, but in anycase, more the result of accidental pressure than of de-liberate intention on his part. It is the same in othersimple crafts. The primitive weaver did not set out toproduce the stripes continually recurring in his work :… … 70. TOOLED BOOKBINDING AND THE DETAILS OF WHICH THE DESIGN IS MADE UP. 8o ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. of two different tints and he had a checquer. And to theend of his plaiting, whatever the elaboration of his design (65),and whatever the symbolic significance of it (ethnologiststell us it is…

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