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What are those decorative patterns on old book edges?

I've always loved these decorative indentations on book page edges but never knew what they were called. They're gauffered edges - gilt edges decorated by a finisher using heated tools to indent small ...
Hyperallergic

Revisiting the Joy of Pattern and Decoration

Installation view of With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, June 26–November 28, 2021, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, ...
Global Times

Chinese artists keep tradition alive with database of decorative patterns

Almost everything in the nature, like clouds, flowers and sea waves, or even things that do not exist in reality such as mythical dragons, phoenixes and qilin (Chinese unicorn) inspired the ancestors ...
House Digest on MSN

The unexpected hack that helps make color and pattern cohesive

Creating a well-blended and balanced maximalism room is much more difficult than it appears, but the answer may lie in one ...
LancasterOnline

'D' is for diapering, a repeating decorative brick pattern on historic Lancaster buildings [architecture column]

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...