The bases of design
Walter Crane's The Bases of Design, published in London by George Bell and Sons in 1898, is a general handbook of decorative design drawn from historical examples, written for students and practising designers. Its plates pair architectural carving and ornamental panels with black-and-white stylised floral motifs, Moorish tiled arches and a Sicilian silk textile, and a designer can take from them how repeat, interlace and stylised plant forms are built into a field.
