Tag: ornament

  • The world in pattern

    Walking past the new book shelf this week, I found a book I really like.   In V&I, I often have talked about the history of design, the history of cloth, the history of fashion, and how closely important they are to the cultures within which they exist. This book gives a rough history of…

  • Vines and Whorls from the Anglo-Saxons

    Last month I wrote a bit about my obsession with curving vines and acanthus leaves.  Someone at the British Museum must have heard my cry, and just posted this about how to decode (and thereby reuse!) the complicated knots and whorls of Anglo-Saxon art.  The British Museum being the foremost holder of such treasures, not…