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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 296

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tion to divide up wall spaces, pages of books, textiles and so forth into panels, in which are inserted floral work, conventional ornament, or figure subjects. They form the basis of the designs of many of the fine English embroidered copes of the fourteenth century. Single panels of the forms… … FIG. 341. Exercises in simple counterchanging may be V. worked out by taking some easily drawn form and Exercises systematically following out a number of regular changes upon it, as has been done in the set of designs given in Fig. 342. Counterchange patterns may be enriched with floral work, as…

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