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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 139

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s connexion with the developed svas/ika is faii-lyobvious, anil it originated in a very siin]ik manner. We are now so familiar with the wiiys of the eastern designer, that it willcause no surprise to find liim obtaining a little variety in his lictidcis by .nrang-ing the svasiika elements… … ilg 4.) The next development was inevitable. These S figures were evidentlymade to be interlocked ; and so, pruning them (jf some of their involutions, theywere interlocked and produced the bordci-s given in figs. oO and oOn. Fig. 50 is given by Owen Jones among tlie (Ireek • keys (No. 7 jil. XV)…

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