ig. 257), which may with great probability have been one of the sources of the Mogul friezes. The skilful way in which, in some of the Mogul VII. Develop- designs, the serrated margins of parts of the or- ment of nament are played off against the plainer passages cloud (see Fig. 279) will serve to… … FIG. 279. a piece of fourteenth-century Moorish silk weaving in the Victoria and Albert Museum, we give a beau- tiful and very elaborate example of this. By elimi- nating the decorated piece of chevron work, which is not essential to the scheme, the structure of the design is revealed, as shown in…
Decoration and ornament
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