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 118
eyond the boundary lines. Withthe more careful drawing of these leaves and the breakingthem up into feathery composite foliage, the design takes itsfinal shape. A farther application of the idea is shown in yet anotherdiagram (120) in which only the main features of the designare distributed… … Similarly the squares (one in each row) may be reserved,not for the pattern, but as spaces free from ornament (121),places of rest, where the eye can appreciate the quality ofplain material. The diagram insists, for emphasis sake, uponthe squareness of the spaces left, but in a finished design…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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