The power of form applied to geometric tracery : one hundred designs and their foundations resulting from one diagram (1851)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · Edinburgh ; London Published by the author by William Blackwood and Sons · leaf 24
se would well repay boththe artist and the workman. But there are other considerations^ and among- these^especially to the Architect^ the studj^ of the g-eometricramifications of Tracery is the key to the restoration ofancient examples^ of which time or wanton destruction hasbut too frequently left… … 22 windoAvs nothing* now remains^ save the stumps of theirsevered branches. Yes ! to the initiated in the knowledg-e ofg*eometrical desig-n these shattered frag-ments are bones suf-ficient to declare the skeleton^—they are the leaves throughwhich the whole book may be read. By its means thestudies…
Decoration and ornament · Geometrical drawing
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