166 DESIGNS OF GEOMETRICAL AND out of all the stages of the development of a com- plicated element in the way shown in this series, constantly repeating the whole from the beginning with the addition of some new enrichment, is an in- structive exercise in the composition of ornament ; for by this… … FIG. 170. over a series of studies showing- the successive stages of a design from a simple beginning to a complicated whole is much more suggestive than a single example would be, as every stage may be used as the starting-point for new alternative lines of development. VII. Curious little…
Decoration and ornament
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