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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 271

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gs. 307 and 308 are those most cross- commonly followed. The example in Fig. 307, from bands. an Attic vase in the British Museum, shows the decoration produced by imposing a series of bands composed of three black lines diagonally upon the same design and filling in the lozenge-shaped inter-… … FIG. 308. FIG. 307. from the method of composition adopted. The crossing is the point of difficulty with elaborately decorated bands, for here the patterns of the two sets of bands must exactly coincide. But in designs following the plan of the second example (Fig. 308), which is from a carved…

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