Needlework as art . Fig. Fig. 17. Indian Balcony Pattern, from steps of tope of Jamal-Zartri, Museum. by a judicious arrangement of light and shadow, and byrepetition. There is a little frieze in one of the Indian Patterns. i i 3 cases on the staircase in the British Museum, which isextremely pretty and effective. It consists of a repetitionof little balconies with recesses and pillars and figuresin pairs. I give it as illustrating the way conventionalpatterns grow. This balcony pattern is of the sixthcentury, The ancient palmated pattern called Chrysoclavus,from

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Needlework as art . Fig. Fig. 17. Indian Balcony Pattern, from steps of tope of Jamal-Zartri, Museum. by a judicious arrangement of light and shadow, and byrepetition. There is a little frieze in one of the Indian Patterns. i i 3 cases on the staircase in the British Museum, which isextremely pretty and effective. It consists of a repetitionof little balconies with recesses and pillars and figuresin pairs. I give it as illustrating the way conventionalpatterns grow. This balcony pattern is of the sixthcentury, The ancient palmated pattern called Chrysoclavus,from the beginning of our era to the thirteenth centurywas partly a nail-headed design, and had become aChristian symbol. It was, probably, originally the primi-tive spot pattern; afterwards promoted to being anornament of discs in colour or metal: this was Assyrian,Etruscan, and Mycatnean. (PI. 70.) Among the conventional patterns which have ap-parently no hidden meaning, but which clearly showtheir descent, are the Chinese and J

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