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 54
orm plainly only asuaver variety of rectilinear design. Flowing patterns canoften be deduced from angular, and vice versa. The priorityof either is open to dispute, but hardly worth disputing. Long before geometric principles were formulated in themind of man he practised them intuitively. As to… … 38. RELATION OF OCTAGON TO CIRCLE DIAPER. the nearest dry twig and indent the damp earth with it, andlo! a diaper of circular forms. Or, again, he might begin toscratch zig-zags, and, as his hand flowed on, they might de-velop into waved lines (37). Wave or zig-zag lines fall na-turally into…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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