Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English
Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English, is a 1893 London study by the architect W. R. Lethaby, written for students and makers of decorative metalwork. Its plates show carved and cast lead ornaments: a tall fluted panel with lozenge and rosette patterns, a cross-shaped piece with interlace roundels, a single diamond lozenge filled with radiating segments, and a headed block with chevron bands and a central figure. A designer could take from them the lozenge-and-rosette grids and the chevron banding as repeatable motifs for pattern work.
