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 215
MORE THAN ENOUGH. 179 … 171. BYZANTINE STRAPWORK. ground, goes for something. The French carvers, however, by the very shghtest variation in the surface of the straps, incHning them now to this side now to that, and making them dip one under the other (167), gave Hfe to this most arbitrary form of ornament, even without…
Decoration and ornament
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