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 61
52. GOTHIC TRACERY DIAPERS CONSTRUCTED ON CIRCULAR LINES. lacing ot these waved lines gives a six-sided figure, the linesof which only want straightening to be recognised at onceas the familiar hexagon. It is not surprising that in thefifteenth and sixteenth centuries pattern commonly took… … 53. GOTHIC TRACERY DIAPER AND ITS CONSTRUCTIONAL LINES. THE CIRCLE. 37 The circle deserves further to be considered because it isitself the scaffolding, or at all events forms part of thescaffolding, upon which a great number of more or lessgeometric patterns have been devised. The simple Gothic…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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