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 63
54. GOTHIC TRACERY AND ITS CONSTRUCTIONAL LINES. shows not only circles but forms into which the segments ofsmaller circles enter. One circle, it seems, begets others. The tracery pattern next to it (52) is constructed by thehelp of small circles, themselves arranged on a circular (orhexagonal)… … 55. GOTHIC TRACERY DIAPER AND ITS CONSTRUCTIONAL LINES. The rather more elaborate design at the bottom of thesame page (53) repeats upon the Hnes of a hexagon, the pointsof which correspond with the centres of star-shapes. But thesix of these enclose another star and the hexagon is seen tobe a…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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