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Lecture IIL
Some Hints
on Pattern/
Designing*
and squares of unfoliated diaper, so to call it, which
still isbuta hintatthe possible construction of the
wall, when it is not in itself constructional* From
that we get to diapers made by lines, either recti/'
linear or taking the form of circles touching one
another* We have now left the idea of construct
tional blocks or curves, and are probably suggest/
mg scoring of lines on the surface ofthe wall joined
to inlaying, perhaps; or else there is an idea in it
of some sort of hanging; at first, as in much ofthe
ancient Egyptian work, woven of reeds or grass,
but later on suggestingweaving of finer materials
that do not call attention to the crossing of warp
and weft*
This next becomes a floriated diaper* The lines
are formed by shapes of stems, & leaves or flowers
fill the spaces between the lines* This kind of or/
namentation has gota longway from the original
stripes and squares,and even from the cross^barred
matting diapers* The first of these (when used
quite simply) is commonly external work, and is
used to enrich further what sunlight and shadow
already enrich* The second either impliesan early
stage of civilization, or a persistent memory of its
rudeness*
But as to this more elaborate diaper, simple as
its construction is, it has never been superseded:
in its richer forms it is intimately connected with
the stately and vast shapes of Roman architecture;
and until the great change took place, when the
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Some Hints
on Pattern/
Designing*
and squares of unfoliated diaper, so to call it, which
still isbuta hintatthe possible construction of the
wall, when it is not in itself constructional* From
that we get to diapers made by lines, either recti/'
linear or taking the form of circles touching one
another* We have now left the idea of construct
tional blocks or curves, and are probably suggest/
mg scoring of lines on the surface ofthe wall joined
to inlaying, perhaps; or else there is an idea in it
of some sort of hanging; at first, as in much ofthe
ancient Egyptian work, woven of reeds or grass,
but later on suggestingweaving of finer materials
that do not call attention to the crossing of warp
and weft*
This next becomes a floriated diaper* The lines
are formed by shapes of stems, & leaves or flowers
fill the spaces between the lines* This kind of or/
namentation has gota longway from the original
stripes and squares,and even from the cross^barred
matting diapers* The first of these (when used
quite simply) is commonly external work, and is
used to enrich further what sunlight and shadow
already enrich* The second either impliesan early
stage of civilization, or a persistent memory of its
rudeness*
But as to this more elaborate diaper, simple as
its construction is, it has never been superseded:
in its richer forms it is intimately connected with
the stately and vast shapes of Roman architecture;
and until the great change took place, when the
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