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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 146

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 146 — bute theangularity of design in his lock-plates(100), a sort of notching or facettingpeculiar to and expressive of the lock-smiths means. Cast metal has naturally the qualitiesof modelling, subject, of course, to thecondition that it shall draw fromthe mould. And there is the furtheropportunity of… … 106. QUILTED SILK. nearly as possible as it came from the mould. Half measuresare seldom satisfactory. The designer of the screen at IratoCathedral, a part of which is gi\en(ioi), has accepted thecurrent type of acanthus scroll, but his version of it is whatneither carver nor modeller would have…

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