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

DAY, LEWIS F.:

ISBN 10: 0713432993 / ISBN 13: 9780713432992

Published by Facsimile reprint of 1903 edit., Batsford, 1979. In d.w. (tear on front cover), 1903

About this Item

8 photographic plates, 252 line drawings., index; xii+286pp. orig. cloth, Good quality reprint which is surprisingly scarce.

Seller Inventory # RGW25904

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pattern Design: A Book for Students, Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning and Evolution of Repeated Ornament.
• Publisher: Facsimile reprint of 1903 edit., Batsford, 1979. In d.w. (tear on front cover)
• Publication Date: 1903
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713432993
• ISBN 13: 9780713432992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Reprint of 1903 edition. A reference work on pattern design and techniques by a member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Focuses on textiles. Prefaces to 1903 and 1979 editions. 252 black and white line drawings and 8 photographs. Table of contents and index. xii, 286 pages. paper-covered boards, dust jacket.. 8vo.

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.