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Lessons on decorative design (1908)

Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 67

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erent distances, leaving spaces of an oblong form. Curves are struck within them, the centres of which are marked. Fig. 2 shows a series of semicircles, emphasized so as to generate a trefoil pattern. Figs. 3 and 4 are patterns resulting from a basis of circles. Figs. 5 and 6 are developed upon… … These, if abstracted, can be used as elements for the construction of new patterns. The above forms have been taken from Plate VI 1 1., and on Plate X. are shown some examples of the use made of them in the formation of different patterns, By further analysis we can reduce these figures to simple…

Decoration and ornament

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