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Lecture III.
Some Hints
on Patterns
Designing.
to put into the dog/hutches which we now think
good enough for refined and educated people,
to say nothing about other buildings lesser and
greater.
Now, with your leave, I will go through some of
the chief crafts in which surface patterns (and
chiefly recurring ones) are used, and try to note
some of the limitations which necessity & reason
impose on them, andshowhowthose limitations
may be made helps, and not hindrances, to those
crafts.
Let us take first the humble, but, as things go, use/
ful art of paper/staining. And firstly, you must
remember that it is a cheap art, somewhat easily
done; elaborate patterns are easy in it; so be care/
ful not to overdo either the elaboration in your
paper or the amount of pattern/work in your
rooms. I mean, by all means have the prettiest
paper you can get, but don't fall in love so much
with the cheapness of its prettiness as to have
several patterns in one room, or even two, if you
will be advised by me. Aboveall, eschew thatbas/
tard imitationof picture, embroidery,ortapestry/
work, which, under the name of dado/papers, are
so common at present; even when they are well
designed, as they often are, they are a mistake.
They do not in the least fill the place of patterns
of beautiful execution or of beautiful materials,
and they weary us of these better things by simu/
lating them* The ease with which the brushwork
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Some Hints
on Patterns
Designing.
to put into the dog/hutches which we now think
good enough for refined and educated people,
to say nothing about other buildings lesser and
greater.
Now, with your leave, I will go through some of
the chief crafts in which surface patterns (and
chiefly recurring ones) are used, and try to note
some of the limitations which necessity & reason
impose on them, andshowhowthose limitations
may be made helps, and not hindrances, to those
crafts.
Let us take first the humble, but, as things go, use/
ful art of paper/staining. And firstly, you must
remember that it is a cheap art, somewhat easily
done; elaborate patterns are easy in it; so be care/
ful not to overdo either the elaboration in your
paper or the amount of pattern/work in your
rooms. I mean, by all means have the prettiest
paper you can get, but don't fall in love so much
with the cheapness of its prettiness as to have
several patterns in one room, or even two, if you
will be advised by me. Aboveall, eschew thatbas/
tard imitationof picture, embroidery,ortapestry/
work, which, under the name of dado/papers, are
so common at present; even when they are well
designed, as they often are, they are a mistake.
They do not in the least fill the place of patterns
of beautiful execution or of beautiful materials,
and they weary us of these better things by simu/
lating them* The ease with which the brushwork
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