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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 273

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- 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 loose scroll, pressing them down here and there some-what in the manner explained above in reference to theAnglo-Saxon cuj). The astonishing… … 234. GLASS THREADS UPON GLASS—SPA-NISH. LIKE TO LIKE. 237 spontaneity and freedom. Manipulationof the onlaid glass is sometimes carriedfurther. A prunt of glass may be, and inRoman work often was, impressed witha metal seal just as though it were wax. The sixteenth-century Venetians wouldsometimes…

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