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Suggestions in design : being a comprehensive series of original sketches in various styles of ornament : arranged for application in the decorative and constructive arts (1880)

Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Colling, James Kellaway · London : Blackie and Son · leaf 145

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ation for tiles is given at Fig. 234, in which the original lines of the diagonal squares are indicated. Each tile is most common form in flowers, as in Fig. Fig. 234. Fig. 235. 228, which represents a five-petalled flower of a pointed shape, with the intermediate points of the calyx. Another… … changes may lie made in geometrical we obtain a pattern which has been used for combinations, giving entirely new and marble inlay. Omit half of each circle, and different results, suppose Ave take No. IT we arrive at a series of pointed quatrefoils from Plate 45, which is a combination of and…

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