ill be advisable to divertattention from them—which isonly done by very carefully con-sidering them. Any design may,of course, be cut up into smallsquares ; but it is only by a mir-acle that hap-hazard lines couldhelp interfering awkwardly withthose of the design. The designer,therefore, scores his… … 62 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. with which they will conflict. The joints must somewhere cutacross a continuous pattern : he contrives that in so doingthere shall be the least possible danger of their distorting ordisturbing it. It has to be remembered that tiles will shrinkin the fire, not always…
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