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 140
r starting-point seems to have been a huge conven-tional flower or pine-apple, occupying nearly, if not quite, theentire width of the material, recurring, of course, at intervals,with one broad waving stem from flower to flower, not, it isclear, running behind the flowers in a continuous sweep,… … 142. FIFTEENTH CENTURY PATTERN AND ITS SCAFFOLDING. ii6 PATTERN DESIGN. follow the logic of the design. I am inclined to think thereis none; that the designer did not bother himself about therepeat; that he trusted to the bigness of the pattern, thesequence of which one can seldom see, and takes…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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