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Old 01-19-2012, 07:47 AM
Bert Edmonston Bert Edmonston is offline
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Default Re: Barry Lee Hands... works in progress

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Originally Posted by Barry Lee Hands View Post

Bert, what we usually call english scroll is actually german scroll, they have been doing it for hundreds of years.
I call this " Small Tessellated scroll"as it is laid out in a tessellated manner, (It is laid out on a hexagon, can you imagine it under the scriolls?) an ancient greek technique often associated with traditional Islamic ornament, I'll bet the germans got it from the turks, who got it from the Arabs, who got it from the Greeks hehe.
So maybe it is really small Greek scroll. . . . .
In any case, you dont really see it much in England until 1850 or thereabouts.
When you make your design layout, do you just draw it on the object or are you using a transfer method of some sort? I'm assuming you draw the scroll design on paper first?

Thank you so much for answering all the questions.
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