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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 63

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conditions are readyshaped to the hand of the designer. Ornament so formedis by birth, what ornament founded upon nature is onlyby adaptation. Material, tools, and methods of techniquehave determined it; and further treatment is unnecessary. There are generic qualities of design which, when onceour… … 21. FIFTEENTH CENTURY SILVERGILT RELIQUARY. may be. The material em-ployed proclaims itself, it maybe emphatically, it may be with-out asserting itself positively ;but its influence is nearly alwaysappreciable. This character inornament is neither arbitrarynor accidental. It comes of fol-lowing the…

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