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Principles of decorative design (1873)

Dresser, Christopher · London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 117

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as a floor ornament ; and Figs. 6.5 and 73 represent a portion of the goosegrass {Galium Aparine) as seen in the same two views. Fig. 74. Figr. 75. Fig. 76. From these illustrations we see that plants furnish us with types of two essentially different ornaments, which are adapted to the decoration… … Fig. 77. Fig. 78. Fig. 79. order can yet he distinctly traced in the manner of their arrangement, as is diagrammatically expressed in Fig-s. 7-1, 75, 76; and here, also, the toji view gives us a regular radiating ornament.* The same law prevails in the flower that we have traced as existing in the…

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