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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 123

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rowth in the line tells of the tool.The remarkable thing is how well the great binders of thesixteenth century did without that freedom of line whichwe are apt to consider indispensable. They did not, asthe modern custom is, seek safety in mere diaper work,but, accepting rather mechanical curves as… … 80. ETRUSCAN CUP, OF WHICH DETAIL IS GIVEN ON PAGE 85. It has been shown already at some length in a volumemore or less preliminary to this ( Pattern Design) howthe very construction of pattern ma}^ be affected b}, if notentirely due to, some particular method of work, and theconditions arising out…

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