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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 272

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bottlethreads of different colouredglass, heated it again, and thenwith a pointed instrument orhook dragged them up anddown into zigzags, somewhatin the way that the book-binder combs into patternthe film of colour with whichhe marbles the edges of hisvolume. To bring the bottleto an even surface… … 233. GLASS UPON GLASS—SAXON. >36 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. notion of winding threads of molten glass which seems tohave occurred natural!}- to glass-blowers all the world over.In the little flask on page 238, Greek work, the glass-blower has trailed about his coloured threads in the formof a…

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