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Traditional methods of pattern designing; an introduction to the study of the decorative art (1910)

Christie, Archibald H · Oxford : Clarendon press · leaf 242

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s in relief, as well as by painters and by inlayers, as the little moulded terra-cotta frieze of late Roman work from Le Puy-en-Velay (see Fig. 261) will show. Many 'key-patterns' are constructed in this way, as may be seen in the two common examples given in Fig. 262. In Saracenic art, which has… … FIG. 265. There are other patterns of very similar appear- ance to these, which must not be confounded with them. Fig. 264 gives instances of these. The designs, when analysed, will be found to belong to the first type, illustrated in Fig. 255, although related to the series just discussed. Border…

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