The Grammar of Ornament

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

Groups ornament by motive rather than by nation, so you can see the same rosette or interlace worked out by Greek, Moorish, Gothic and Japanese hands. Line drawings throughout, made for study rather than display.

W. and G. Audsley

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