zantine marble capitals, on lintels, and so forth. A marble slab from St. Mark's, Venice (Plate XXX), gives us an example of a square-shaped knot, and a more simple one of similar shape from a piece of Coptic weaving is shown in Fig. 362. Knots and interlacing band designs attained an extraordinary… … FIG. 361. riG. 362. and wide by the fugitive monks and artisans who fled from Egypt after the Mohammedan conquest of that country.1 The composition of knot-work is a useful exercise V. in experimental designing. By means of exercises in Exercises this work a power of laying out an involved pattern…
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