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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 316

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AND KNOT-WORK 313 the starting-point of a series of exercises such as those drawn out in Fig. 363, so long as it is a continuous line, without junctions or branches. In Fig- S^S a figure shaped like a Greek cross is developed. In this set of examples an attempt is made to eliminate the background… … FIG. 366. this resemble attempts to set out the course of a traveller, who, in exploring an unknown land, has gone over as much ground as possible, never retrac- ing exactly the same path, but frequently crossing it. In designs of another type, called mazes or laby- VI. rinths, which are closely…

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