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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 79

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s of franklyfollowing its lines. It is wonderful what an artist with aneye to the essential in form can do in the way of renderingit under strict limitations, for example in darning rigidlyconfined within the square lines of open net. Naturally theneedle-worker chooses the forms which she can… … :6. PRINTED VELVET WITH COLOLR IX FROAP MASSES. in satin-stitch, follows its lines strictly, and by the lengthof the stitch (or more properly its well-judged shortness)gives not only the drawing of the design, but ver}- prettydiaper work. The key-patterned background is most in-geniously chosen. It…

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