Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 140
r, and that the second carries on the idea of the first to a higherpitch of perfection. That idea is the emphatic repetition of the svastika, whichis produced by the lines of design in the first, and by the space-shape in thesecond. In order to discover how these two borders came into existence, I… … Fig. 42. 112 STUDIES TN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN The first point to be noted about this figure is that its formal regularityproclaims it to be a diaper constructed out of pakwa elements, with regularlyrecurrent features resembling in their nature the diapers we have already studied.The element…
Decoration and ornament
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