Pattern Design : A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning and Evolution of Repeated Ornament

Day, Lewis Foreman

ISBN 10: 1443726729 / ISBN 13: 9781443726726

Published by Wolfenden Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pattern Design : A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning and Evolution of Repeated Ornament
• Publisher: Wolfenden Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443726729
• ISBN 13: 9781443726726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

Take any form you choose and repeat it at regular intervals, and, just as repetitive sounds produce rhythm or cadence, you have pattern. However, the use of pattern in design is no haphazard matter, but a disciplined activity in which the artists must impose a pleasing order and structure on the whole to achieve an aesthetically satisfying end product.
This classic guide, revised and expanded by Amor Fenn three decades after its publication, teaches artists to do just that. Surveying a multitude of applications, from architectural detail to decorative textile printing and typographic patterns, Day provides insight into the geometric foundations of all repeating patterns, and treats in a practical way the anatomy, planning, and evolution of repeated ornament. He demonstrates the extent to which pattern is the essence of the ornamental arts, and offers a wealth of technical information for the student and designer.
Generously illustrated with more than 270 designs ranging from old Japanese, Persian, and Arabian patterns to early 20th-century motifs, Pattern Design will stimulate the imaginations and advance the skills of novices and experts alike.