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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 348

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 348 — of enamel,the silver wire of damascening. Where it is not, it is a readymeans of bringing tones together or detaching them one fromthe other. A network of gold lines harmonises the harshestcontrasts of primary colours. An outline in a deeper tint ofthe local colour, say red on flesh colour,… … 2«q. SOFTENING EFFECT OF OUTLINE. Outline is of such use in ornament and so often useful thatit has come to be regarded as the necessary passport to decora-tion. The saving faith in it has been preached as though itwere a dogma of design. It has been taken for the outwardand visible sign of fit…

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