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 258
ing design. When a border is made up of alternating blocks (268) sayof freer and more iormal design, it is not easy to say whichmay have been ,the starting point. In the diagram (270) onpage 230 mere diaper assumes exceptional importance, and thepanel, stop, or block takes almost the aspect of… … scalloped stem bursting into bud. In diagram 272 the coshaped scroll, itself made up of two inverted parts, turns overon itself, and forms the base line from which upsprings abi-symmetrical growth. We have here a typical form of con-struction especially useful where the repeat is necessarilyshort.…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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