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: 1406743917 / ISBN 13: 9781406743913

Published by Wolfenden Press, 2014

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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: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406743917
• ISBN 13: 9781406743913
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides a classic guide to pattern deisgn for the beginner in repeat design. Using simple language and many illustrations, it covers most of the design principles and approaches and provides a wealth of information on the construction of the repeat. This is a must have for the refernce library of any pattern designer or textile designer. Originally published in 1903 we are here republishing this improtant works with a new introductory biography of the author. Lewis Foreman Day was a designer and decorative artist, he was also one of the major design reformers of the later nineteenth century – central in promoting the newly propagated Arts and Crafts movement.

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.