Méthode de composition ornementale
Méthode de composition ornementale is a 1905 Paris treatise on ornament by Eugène Grasset, published by the Librairie centrale des beaux-arts for students and designers learning to build decorative systems. Its plates show border bands, scroll repeats and lettered grid diagrams that break ornament into modular units. A designer could take from them the method of constructing a repeat: a single curl or wave is set on a grid, mirrored and offset to form continuous borders.
