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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 59

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF from decorative units, and in which lie hidden deep pictorial symbolical meanings which have appealed to the symboli- imagination of many generations. Before leaving senta?1^" *^s Part °^ ^e su^Ject> we w^l giye some further tions. … FIG. 40. examples of another piece of forgotten symbolism, this^ time of a highly pictorial character. It is a device of great importance to the decorator, for it supplies him with material of the highest possible value. It occurs very persistently in the designs of

Decoration and ornament

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