Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)
Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 104
an (or Moresque). — The chief examples of this decoration are found in the palace of the Moors at Granada. It is a free flowing system of interlacing scrolls, worked so as to cover the whole surface of the decorated space. The Moors never allowed any gaps or intervening spaces, crowd¬ ing every… … Fig. 21. — Arabian Border Pattern. an interlacement formed by the crossing of two squares, while curvilinear decorations are often broken by a straight line. Turkish, Moresque, and Arabian, which are regarded as distinct styles, had each this peculiarity, although in Turkish ornament the rules that…
Interior decoration · Color in interior decoration · Mural painting and decoration
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