Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900) (14597776987)

Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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Band Motiyes. Plate 3. GEOMETEICAL ELEMENTS.
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Plate 4. Band Motives. Baud Motives. — Diaper Patterns. 9 71 and 19. Carvings in basrelief from the implements of savages. 18. Greek vase painting, Motive: the seam. 20. Waves with lotus, Egyptian w^all-painting, (Owen Jones). Plate 3. Band Motives, in Arcs. 5 and 13. Undulate lines.10. Motive of the strung coin pattern (coins threaded on a cord). 17. Romanesque ornament from an evangeliarium written for Charle- magne, 8th century. Library of the Louvre, Paris. 18. Romanesque mural painting, Swedish church. 19. Chinese damaskeened ornament from a vase, (Racinet). Plate 4. Band Moti\tes, )\Iixed. 13. Romanesque glass painting, church of S. Urban, Troyes.15. Frieze, house, Beaune, 17th century, (Racinet). N. B. Where two arcs are joined: it is necessary, in order to avoid abreak, that the two centres and the point of junction should be in thesame straight line. Diaper Patterns. (Plates 5—7.) Plates 5, 6 and 7 give a selection for flat patterns. Almost allthe constructions may be ref