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February 18th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Hey, that’s a William Morris design in the background …
February 18th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
That’s right… here’s the source: http://www.charlesrupert.com/williammorris/wallpapers/bird_vineWP.html
February 18th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
They have C. R. Mackintosh stuff too. Not your tattoo, though…
February 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
My tattoo is by Christopher Dresser …
Some examples of his designs:
http://www.wilsonart.com/design/statement/viewarticle.asp?articleid=105
http://bookpress.com/featured_16.html
http://www.mica.edu/library/imgchan/imgchan2/Images/dov032.jpg
This one is particularly funny. In the lower third of this page, there is a really interesting design by Christopher Dresser:
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/genealogy/wallis/wallis%20carpets.htm
With the quote, “If this had been produced in closely matched colours, the effect of the grotesque design would have been lost and useless. If in contrasting colours, the result would have been dizziness or a bad headache or both. Dresser designed several carpets in his career. None of them sold well.”
February 21st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I somehow confused the two. Mackintosh’s patterns looked a bit like your design.
The last link to the carpet design article was great, especially the Dickens quote…
‘I’ll explain to you, then,’ said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, ‘why you wouldn’t paper a room with representations of horses. Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality — in fact? Do you?’
‘Yes, sir!’ from one half. ‘No, sir!’ from the other.
‘Of course no,’ said the gentleman, with an indignant look at the wrong half. ‘Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don’t see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don’t have in fact. What is called Taste, is only another name for Fact.’