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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 322

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l execution(see Pattern Design, page 3); but, apart from any inducementof manufacture or economy, artists resort to repetition, notmerely because the human brain cannot go on inventingwithout the comparative rest of manual labour, because it isa preventive against loose and rambling ornament,… … 27X. ORNA>n:XlAL USE OF FI(;URK COMPOSITION. only question is to \\hat extent he may avail himself ofit. And the answer seems to be: in proportion to the 286 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. character of his detail. The oftener form is to be repeatedthe more surely should it be removed from nature,…

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