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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 77

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 77 — tepped according tothe tesserae of wool (a carpet is properly a sort of mosaicof square tufts), but that it is impossible to render delicatecurves: they become at the best broken in the weaving;and the rational thing for the designer to do is, either todepend upon the square and diagonal lines that… … 34. BROCADE IN WHICH THE TREATMENT IS NOT BEVOND REPROACH. CHARACTER WHICH COMES OF TREATMENT. 41

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