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 32
painter is an amateur whenfirst he tries his hand at pattern) that the lines which areso distressing in incompetent pattern are the result ofmathematical planning. That is not merely false, but, asevery practical designer knows, the very opposite of thetruth. There is no more radical mistake than… … 3. BALANCE OF ORNAMENT ENOUGH FOR A PANEL BUT NOT FOR AREPEATING PATTERN. 8 PATTERN DESIGN. and inevitable result of not working upon any lines at all.If you work \nthout a system the only safety is in insignifi-cance. A pattern may be comparatively featureless; and, solong as there is in it no…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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