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 343
definite purpose in determining the depth of the colours employed in the first instance, to alter them would perhaps entirely upset his scheme. The expedient of an outline has no such disadvantage, and it is ready to his hand. It enables him, in fact, deliberately and safely to adopt a scheme of… … u
Decoration and ornament
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