Outlines of Ornament in the Leading Styles

Jones gathered ornament from Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, Moresque, Celtic and Renaissance sources and set the patterns side by side. The plates show how the same geometric grids resurface in cultures that never met.

Owen Jones

Kerrich applies the two overlapping circles of the vesica piscis to the floor plans of churches from Rome to Bath and shows how closely they fit. A short, focused study on the pattern that starts the Flower of Life.

Thomas Kerrich

Bragdon builds a whole ornamental language out of magic squares, regular polyhedra and projections from four-dimensional space. A practical manual for generating patterns from geometry alone.

Claude Bragdon