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 33
. 10. the first. But when we come to the spider’s web, This is, at least, a most dangerous course, Fig. 11, we find that nature has taught the because if worked out and applied through insect a certain amount of symmetry, and everything, we should arrive at a state where he radiates his lines from… … required — no thought necessary ; we should variety and destroy too great a tendency to regularity. have but to use things at random and all Enrichment of surface is obtained by the would be attained. This may be all very well up to a certain point, and upon a breaking it up by ornament, which may…
Decoration and ornament
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