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 233
nner of angles and gi\e a glitter ofcolour defying the utmost severity of form. But it is notmerely the accident of colour which is used to counterbalancetoo great certainty of form. The Arabs, for example, wereadepts in contradicting the ground-lines of geometric orna-ment and bringing into… … Jiy. ALHAMBRESQUE TtI.E MOSAIC SHOWING SYSTEMATIC DISTURB-ANCE OF GEOMETRIC FORM BY VARIATION IN COLOUR. COLOUR. 209 most thoughtfully planned. Sometimes it is focussed intopoints which successfully break the monotony of intersectinglines. Sometimes it is disposed in rings and rays so effectu-ally…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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