ris adopted this idea of dotting in hiscretonne and wall-paper design with admirable effect. Itbecame in his hands an admirable convention in place ofmore natural shading. Ornament might well be described as, in the first instance,a means of getting texture—of making a difference betweenone part of… … 42. EMBOSSED WALL-PAPER, IN WHICH I HE HIGH RELIEF IS KEPTCLEAR OF THE JOINTS. 50 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. in brush lines, is not much more than scribbHng to give atexture or tint, and the pattern on the pattern in the Persianearthenware (39) is still in the nature of a scribble. There isno…
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