A text book dealing with ornamental design for woven fabrics (1897)
Stephenson, Charles, Suddards, F · London : Methuen ; Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 181
d decorative lines, and idealising theessential beauties of the flower while rejecting non-essentialand unimportant accidents. The designers duty as regards nature is one of abstract-ing or eliminating ; parts that are unnecessary to the designshould be left out, those that will add to the beauty… … t i##it m0- f l« f V MOSS-ROSE AND HEATHER WITH ADAPTATIONS. 164 NATURE CONVENTIONALISED from it, it is obvious that it would be better not to use therose at all, but to invent something of his own. Having discussed these questions of conventionality andabstraction, a few practical illustrations…
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