Pattern design : a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy, planning & evolution of repeated ornament (1915)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 102
such features as the flowers at the top of the repeat would, inrecurrence, give a sort of zig-zag line. True, a drop pattern may recover itself in the third repeat;but only on the condition that it drops just half its depth.A drop of one-third its depth recovers itself only in the fourth * Another… … 99.. PATTERN WHICH DROPS ONE-THIRD OR TWO-THIRDS OF 115DEPTH UNIT OF^REPEAT SUBDIVIDED AS IN 98. strip (96); a drop of one-fourth its depth, only in the fifth(97), and so on. In a drop-repeat, properh^ so-called, eachsuccessive strip drops, and drops alwa3s the same distance.It does not jump up and…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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