Pattern Design - A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy - Planning & Evolution of Repeated Ornament

Lewis F. Day

• Publisher: Obscure Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446549209
• Print ISBN:
  9781408694008

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on pattern design, being a practical book for students concerning the anatomy, planning, and evolution of repeated ornament. Complete with interesting information, valuable tips, and a plethora of useful diagrams and examples, this book will greatly appeal to anyone with a keen interest in design. It would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Practical Pattern Planning', 'The 'Drop' Repeat', 'Smaller Repeats', 'Sundry Scaffolding', 'The Turnover', etcetera. This text is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• I. What Pattern Is
• II. The Square
• III. The Triangle
• IV. The Octagon
• V. The Circle
• VI. The Evolution of Pattern
• VII. Practical Pattern Planning
• VIII. The “Drop Repeat”
• IX. Smaller Repeats
• X. Sundry Scaffoldings
• XI. The Turnover
• XII. The Turn-Round
• XIII. Pattern Planning in Relation to Technique
• XIV. How to Set About Design
• XV. To Prove a Pattern
• XVI. Colour
• XVII. Borders
• XVIII. Pattern Not Strictly Repeating
• XIX. Expedients in Practical Design
• XX. The Invention of Pattern
• Index