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Principles of decorative design (1873)

Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 112

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side, or, as I might express it,when viewed as a wall decoration; and Fig. 70 is the same spray as seen from above,or, to use the same manner of expression, when seen as a lloor pattern. Further, TREATMENT OF NATURAL FORMS IN CARPET PATTERNS. 97 Fig. 71 represents a yotmg plant of a species of… … Fig. 74. Fig. 75. Fig. 76. From these illustrations we see that plants furnish us with types of twoessentially different ornaments, which are adapted to the decoration of the twopositions of wall and floor, and may he introduced with truthful expression and effectinto wall-paper or carpet. Even…

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