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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 36

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THE ORIGIN OF DECORATION 33 or of natural objects, everything that during the earlier state of the art had been incorporated into its FIG. 8. complex system, was turned to a new use by this all- absorbing decorative sense without any regard tp what its original purpose might have been.

Decoration and ornament

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