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 223
ROM PROCESS TO PROCESS. the surface coat to the colour he wants for his design ; but he must make up his mind betimes as to the plan of his colour. An alternative to the use of a coloured ground is to rub colour into sunk lines. It is easily wiped off the surface. The patterns on page 185 have all… … 178. DEEPLY CUT SANDSTONE GLAZED WITH VITREOUS ENAMEL. But with the facility of so doing we get without fail more elaborate pattern work, such as the intricate diapering upon the upper walls of the Alhambra. The example opposite is from the synagogue at Toledo. Much of this Moorish plaster work is…
Decoration and ornament
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