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Meanders are common decorative elements in Greek and Roman art. In ancient Greece they appear in many architectural friezes, and in bands on the pottery of ancient Greece from the Geometric period onward. The design is common to the present-day in classicizing architecture, and is adopted frequently as a decorative motif for borders for many ...
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment.
Border Gong (工; work) and bats Decorative Floral and twines Grass pattern Tang caowen [4] Twined branches Chanzhiwen [4] Curves Pommel pattern Guri (屈輪) / Pommel scroll [21] Geometric Diagonal Diagonal straight lines Lishui: Diagonal wavy lines Semicricles Horizontal semi-circles Woshui Curvilinear Swirl [4] Wavy Wavy Boqu [4] Others
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The whiplash or whiplash line is a motif of decorative art and design that was particularly popular in Art Nouveau. It is an asymmetrical, sinuous line, often in an ornamental S-curve, usually inspired by natural forms such as plants and flowers, which suggests dynamism and movement. [ 1 ]
A spreading scrollwork panel below, scrolling forms coming off a straight stem in the side panels, and a border band of meanders below the figures. Examples of one basic form of the scroll, taken from existing monuments. [1] Note the common core element of the heart shaped confronted volutes & stem, highlighted in green.
For Wilde, however, the inner meaning of Victorian decorative arts is fourfold: one must first reconstruct one’s inside so as to grasp what is outside in terms of both living quarters and mind, whilst hearkening back to von Humboldt on the way to Plato so as to be immersed in contemporaneous cosmopolitanism, [8] thereby in the ideal state ...
Borders. 1866–1880: red or gold rules, single and double lines; 1884–1885: wide gold borders; 1885–1892: gold beveled edges; 1889–1896: rounded corner rule of single line; 1890s on: Embossed borders and/or lettering; Lettering. A cabinet card from 1896