The Oriental styles are the Persian, (East) Indian, Chinese and Japanese.
Graceful lines running in the same general direction is all that is aimed at in Figs. 19, 20 and 21. The shading is to be added, with the same display of quick lines flowing along the same curves.
Wall-Paper and Oil Cloth Designing
The principal requirement in a design for wall-paper or oil cloth is that the edges shall match each other; that is, when the ends and sides are connected the entire design must appear connected and continuous. Therefore, the design must be made so that if it is repeated side by side, and end for end, a continuous, harmonious pattern will be observed.
In the designs shown in Fig. 22 each unit is supposed to be the full width of a strip of wall-paper or oilcloth. They are drawn in conformity with the requirement noted. The height may be greater or less than the width, but the sides and ends must conform to the rule.
A Wall-Paper Design
The casual observer would not be apt to guess that the design in Fig. 24 was based on the dotted line units in A, Fig. 23, placed in their regular order, aided by the oblique, horizontal and vertical lines of the diagram. Yet that is the man-
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