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 31
TERN DESIGN. upon his attention? And to the designer himself one ofhis strangest experiences is the trick a seemingly quiteinnocent pattern will play upon him in repetition. Adesign, for example, which appears to be quite evenly dis-tributed will run, when hung, into lines which slant in sucha way… … 2. PREDETERMINED GAPS IN A PATTERN. deliberately planned—and from the very beginning—or thereis no knowing what havoc they might play in repetition. Amateurs will tell you (and a painter is an amateur whenfirst he tries his hand at pattern) that the lines which areso distressing in incompetent…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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