The two paths : being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9
This 1859 book of lectures by John Ruskin, published in New York by J. Wiley, argues for art as a basis for decoration and manufacture, addressed to designers and makers. Its pictures are plain line drawings of fan-shaped and arched ornamental layouts: stylised flowers rising on long stems in a semicircle, a bordered panel with radiating stems, and a sinuous band of foliage. A designer might take from them the radiating semicircular arrangement and the rhythm of stems fanned from a base line.
