Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . (1) Garden tulip (2) Iris. (3) Trellis (4) Honeysuckle Plate XIII—FAMOUS PAPERS BY WILLIAM MORRIS 379 DECORATIVE TEXTILES Dorado wall paper will have a good mental picture of what I mean. The architecture pictured in the Boscoreale frescoes is notrealistic. In fact, much of it is impossible. The artist has madecolumns
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . (1) Garden tulip (2) Iris. (3) Trellis (4) Honeysuckle Plate XIII—FAMOUS PAPERS BY WILLIAM MORRIS 379 DECORATIVE TEXTILES Dorado wall paper will have a good mental picture of what I mean. The architecture pictured in the Boscoreale frescoes is notrealistic. In fact, much of it is impossible. The artist has madecolumns graceful at the expense of strength, and has piled structuralmasses where they would be theatrically effective. He was avowedlynot imitating nature but producing decoration. This is shown notonly by the fancifulness of the architecture, but also by the repetitionof scenes. Repetition is what separates decoration from the art thatimitates or interprets nature. Nature seldom repeats and neverexactly. Of ornament and pattern, repetition is the backbone. Inrepetition, as in most other things, excess is easy—particularly if itis done by machine. Modern wall papers surround us with obtrusivestupidities repeated a thousand times. No wonder that many of thewall paper manufacturers bring out a new set
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