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 99
it is convenient it should)precisely twice its width. The unit of repeat being in thiscase a double square, gives us the trellis on which thechessboard pattern is built. A checquer pattern (illustra-tion 93) works as a drop-repeat one square wide and twosquares deep. The unit of a double square… … 95. DIAGRAM OF STEP PLAN WHICH DOES NOT GIVE A DROP REPEAT. THE DROP REPEAT. 75 V _!V^ ^r K-2.! iNCHLb-^/ ^^^V 96. DIAGRAM OF PATTERN WHICH DROPS ONE-THIRD OF ITSDEPTH. This is effectually done by counteracting the vertical tendencyof the lines in one division of the repeat by horizontal lines in
Design · Patternmaking · Decoration and ornament
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