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 97
e dimensions of the repeat. The brick patternabove would not answer to the description of a drop-repeattwice as wide as it is deep. As a unit of those dimensions, itdoes not drop in the technical sense. It drops in fact as arepeat twice as deep as it is wide, or as a right-angled diamond.If,… … 92. HEXAGON PLAN—ITS RELATION TO DIAMOND. THE DROP REPEAT. 73 ^ ^ II =11 — ^ ^ II II — II S! . ^ II II ^ 93. COUNTERACTING LINES OF DESIGN—REPEAT A DOUBLE SQUARE. The hexagon, again, does not drop in the orthodox man-ner, though it amounts to the same thing as a diamond whichdoes drop. Diagram 92…
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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