Following this machine aesthetic, modernist designers typically rejected decorative motifs in design, preferring to emphasize the materials used and pure geometrical forms.

Quilting can be elaborately decorative, comprising stitching fashioned into complex designs and patterns, simple or complex geometric grids, " motifs " traced from published quilting patterns or traced pictures, freehand, or complex repeated designs called tessellations.

Some believe that tatting may have developed from netting and decorative ropework as sailors and fishers would put together motifs for girlfriends and wives at home.

Thomsen was the first to perceive typologies of grave goods, grave types, methods of burial, pottery and decorative motifs, and to assign these types to layers found in excavation.

* In India, figures of Buddha replace abstract motifs on decorative items.

Within the very wide range of Eurasian decorative art that includes motifs matching this basic definition the term " arabesque " is used consistently as a technical term by art historians to describe only elements of the decoration found in two phases: Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.

Claims are often made regarding the theological significance of the arabesque, and its origin in a specifically Islamic view of the world ; however these are without support from written historical sources as, like most medieval cultures, the Islamic world has not left us documentation of their intentions in using the decorative motifs they did.

Most Hoysala temples have a plain covered entrance porch supported by lathe turned ( circular or bell-shaped ) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs.

An Augsburg horse armour in the German Historical Museum, Berlin, dating to between 1512 and 1515, is decorated with motifs from Hopfer's etchings and woodcuts, but this is no evidence that Hopfer himself worked on it, as his decorative prints were largely produced as patterns for other craftsmen in various media.

It often includes the alphabet, figures, motifs, decorative borders and sometimes the name of the person who embroidered it and the date.

While working in architecture, Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed his own style: a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves, e. g. the Mackintosh Rose motif, along with some references to traditional Scottish architecture.

An approximate graphic view of some aspects of Cretan life in the Bronze Age is provided by restorations of the palace's indoor and outdoor murals, as it is also by the decorative motifs of the pottery and the insignia on the seals and sealings.

Once in royal hands, the château became a favourite of French kings, from Louis XI to Francis I. Charles VIII decided to rebuild it extensively, beginning in 1492 at first in the French late Gothic Flamboyant style and then after 1495 employing two Italian mason-builders, Domenico da Cortona and Fra Giocondo, who provided at Amboise some of the first Renaissance decorative motifs seen in French architecture.

Usually they are not found as decorative motifs but as integral parts of a story in bas-relief, as for example at Borobudur, Mendut, Prambanan, Plaosan, and Penataran.

Angkor Wat architects employed small apsara images ( 30 – 40 cm as seen at left ) as decorative motifs on pillars and walls.

Lord Burlington's use of certain motifs and decorative schemes suggests that he regarded the Villa and its garden as a single entity.

Variously flags of United Nations member countries, the U. S. states and territories, or decorative and seasonal motifs are flown.

Techniques, shapes and decorative motifs were all affected.

Apart from miniature painting and calligraphy, other arts of the book are decorative illumination, the only type found in Qu ' ran manuscripts, and Islamic book covers, which are often highly decorative in luxury manuscripts, using either the geometric motifs found in illumination, or sometimes figurative images probably drawn for the craftsmen by miniature painters.

The architectural members of the earlier short-lived massive structure with stencil-cut foliage pattern and other decorative motifs were reused in the construction of the monumental structure which has a huge pillared hall different from residential structures providing sufficient evidence of construction of public usages which remained under existence for a long time during the period.

The prototypal Corded Ware culture, German Schnurkeramikkultur is found in Central Europe, mainly Germany and Poland, and refers to the characteristic pottery of the era: twisted cord was impressed into the wet clay to create various decorative patterns and motifs.

This tombstone is inlaid with Ayutthayan decorative motifs in the form of the letter't '.

Constantino Brumidi designed the decorative scheme as a whole, in collaboration with the architect Charles U. Walter, at the time when plans were being made to replace the wooden dome of Bullfinch with the present much larger iron structure.

They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic.

Tools, weapons, armor, and various building materials, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper (" Chalcolithic ") predecessors.

The doors of the mosques in Cairo were of two kinds ; those which, externally, were cased with sheets of bronze or iron, cut out in decorative patterns, and incised or inlaid, with bosses in relief ; and those in wood, which were framed with interlaced designs of the square and diamond, this latter description of work being Coptic in its origin.

In Japan, Samurai and Zen monks were often required to build decorative gardens or practice related skills like flower arrangement known as ikebana.

These sheets were cut into smaller window panes with nonuniform thickness, typically with the location of the pour centred in one of the panes ( known as " bull's-eyes ") for decorative effect.

The intricate decorative designs at Alhambra, which were based on mathematical formulas and feature interlocking repetitive patterns sculpted into the stone walls and ceilings, were a powerful influence on Escher's works.

' Quasiperiodical ' structures were claimed to be observed in some decorative tilings devised by medieval Islamic architects.

Thus they hold that even as small a mark as a kotzo shel yod ( קוצו של יוד ), the serif of the Hebrew letter yod ( י ), the smallest letter, or decorative markings, or repeated words, were put there by God to teach scores of lessons.

As used in Moorish and Arabic decorative art ( from which, almost exclusively, it was known in the Middle Ages ), representations of living creatures were excluded ; but in the arabesques of Raphael, founded on the ancient Græco-Roman work of this kind, and in those of Renaissance decoration, human and animal figures, both natural and grotesque, as well as vases, armour, and objects of art, are freely introduced ; to this the term is now usually applied, the other being distinguished as Moorish Arabesque, or Moresque.

Pottery and decorative styles were changing rapidly.

Practical within their own cultures, decorative baskets were also important trade items for many tribes.

It was largely a reaction against the impoverished state of the decorative arts at the time and the conditions in which they were produced.

The major development that occurred was in the growing use of the human figure as the major decorative motif, and the increasing surety with which humanity, its mythology, activities and passions were depicted.

Early decorative elements were generally semi-circular, but later of roughly triangular shape with moulded ornament, often palmate.

Internal spaces were designed to be relatively low-cost, yet functional and with decorative elements reminiscent of the detached houses and villas to which the buyers might aspire later in their lives.

Johnston & Edleman were commissioned for the design of the Moody Tabernacle, with the interior decorative " fresco secco " stencils ( stencil technique applied on dry plaster ) designed by Sullivan .< ref > Louis Sullivan at www. prairiestyles. com

Sometimes the stone columns of the nave were painted, and the panels in decorative wall arcading contained narratives or figures of saints.

During the 1990s, the downtown area underwent a revitalization, many of the city sidewalks were repaved with decorative brick facing, and a different mix of shops and restaurants opened up to take advantage of the area's historical appeal.

Art Nouveau (, Anglicised to ) is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art — especially the decorative arts — that were most popular during 1890 – 1910.