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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 277

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274 DESIGNS FORMED BY IMPOSING producing a series of little cusps from the sides of the rectangular panels and adding some further simple enrichment. VII. In Fig. 315 prominence is given to the 'crossing' Develop- by colouring it black. This treatment becomes ment of especially interesting in… … FIG. 316. istic patterns, such as that given in Fig. 316, from a fine sixteenth-century Persian manuscript. The relationship of this design to the preceding one is apparent ; it is the same with additional horizontal bands drawn through the crossings, producing six- pointed stars, which are also…

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