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 80
f science—without which the merely practical con-ditions imposed by the necessity of repetition, and especiallyof repetition within a given area, are hardly to be overcome. The art of the pattern designer is, not merely in devisingpretty combinations of form, but in scheming them upon linesnot of… … 76. CURVILINEAR DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGRAM 26. His task is to get beautiful results out of no matter whatunpromising conditions. Then indeed he may claim to be anartist. I have been at some pains to lay down the lines on whichpattern may possibly be constructed, but the possible lines arenot in all…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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