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A text-book of design (1912)

Kelley, Charles Fabens, 1885-, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Mowll, William Luther, joint author · Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 73

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ear to advantage andwithout competition or distraction. If the wall-paper initself were too attrac-tive, pictures and otherobjects seen against itwould lose in interest.Except in damascen-ing and wire inlay, prac- |ticcd by the Easternpeoples, and in somesimple Japanese pottery,continuous line… … LINE COMPOSITION when made up of lines have a finaHty for such ])urposeswhich is lacking in borders composed of spots only. A num-ber of unrhythmical borders may be seen on the Chinesebell (Fig. 63). Some are of spots and some of discontinuous

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