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 116
nged in bands of different colours. In work, also, no longer primitive, material may be trusted to advise the designer what to do, and his tools to tell him how to do it — so surely that to explain the treat- ment characteristic of the various periods of historic orna- ment would be to tell the… … 71 AND 72. SEVERE DESIGNS, NOT HARSH, IN GENTLY CONTRASTING SHADES OF DAMASK.
Decoration and ornament
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