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 F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910, author · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 109
THE TEACHING OF THE TOOL. 73 workmanship ; it is analogous, as Mr Wornum long ago pointed out, to "hand" in writing. But handwriting is determined not only by the personality of the writer but by the pen he uses. There never was a process but wrote its character upon the work done by it ; and the… … 63. INCISED MEDIAEVAL STONEWARE. The cuneiform character of the Assyrians (61) (curiously like the dig of the Rhenish potter upon his clay (63), though he never heard of the writing on Babylonian slabs and cylinders) tells of the chisel with which it was cut ; the flowing lines of Chinese and…
Decoration and ornament
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