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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 131

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ous that a great variety of keys can be produced by this very simple means. The process of interlock-ing the ends of the elements is of course the point at which the artists ingenuitycomes into play ; but it is precisely the same ingenuity, exercised in preciselysimilar circumstances, as that which… … So tar, therefore, as keys are eoneenied, in which the element is not verycomplicated, their genesis is clear. They are transverse sections of diapersconstructed in the same way as fig. 32 : the pakira element having been .selected,and the due proportion of its returns determined with a view to…

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