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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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The Oblong, and its Subdivision. Plate 16. GEOMETRICAL MOTIVES.
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Plate 17. The Rhombus, the Trapezium, and their Subdivisiou. I The^Subdivisions of the Rhombus, &c. — TheCircle, &c. — Gothic Tracer/. 27 Plate 17. The Rhojibus, and the Trapezium. 1— 4. Subdivision of the Rhombus. 5— 8. „ „ „ Parallel Trapezium. 9—10. „ „ „ Symmetrical Trapezium. The Circle, its Subdivision, and Intersections.(Plate 18.) The Circle is often used in ornamentation as a fundamental form.No good result is produced (as a rule) by dividing it merely byradii or other straight lines; and it is therefore usually divided bymeans of curved lines or of a combination of arcs and straight lines.By describing circles to cut each other: motives may be obtained, asshown by figures 3 and 7, the latter of which is the basis of aRoman mosaic pavement found in Pompeii (Figure 17). That circles which cut each-other form of themselves an effec-tive pattern—is shown by the engine-turned ornament, which is pro-duced by machinery and applied to the decoration o

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