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 223
but traced, or, better stillperhaps, stencilled. That is a test which any one can apply;and it is infaUible. The earlier the stage at which this testing is done thebetter. A designer is bound in the interests of his ownreputation to make sure of the satisfactory repeat of a patternbefore he lets it… … 209. DIAGRAMS TO SHOW THE PROVING OF A PATTERN. price at which he thinks that is not to be expected of him;but, if liis design does not repeat satisfactoril3% it will bereckoned against him, no matter what the price paid for it;and, on the other hand, work islikely to flow towards theartist whose…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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