The same holds good for nearly all forms of matting and basketry which is made of strips of one material, but the constructional surface marking may be rectangles of various shapes and sizes instead of simple squares.
The curvilinear freehand scroll, which is readily painted, incised, or moulded in relief, is forced by the constructional character of textiles into square forms, and a rectangular meander or fret will result.
It was noted that, in Gothic architecture, this is for the most part a detached slab of stone, having noconstructional relation to the rest of the building.
The destruction of the village has been so complete that no vestige of constructional details remains, with the exception of a row of posts in a building near the church.
The following nomenclature, collected by Mr. Stephen, comprises the terms commonly used in designating the constructionaldetails of Tusayan houses and kivas: Kiko´li The ground floor rooms forming the first terrace.
These features will be referred to in the discussion and comparison of these architectural groups by constructional details in Chapter IV.
Minor modifications are seen in the positions of many of the features, but a certain general relation between the various constructional requirements of the ceremonial room is found to prevail throughout all the villages.
The cruder examples of banded construction, however--those that still kept well within constructional expediency--were doubtless covered with a coating of plaster where they occurred inside of the rooms.
Pueblo masonry is essentially made up of small, often minute, constructional units.
Their main lines, being formed of wood, were straight; their panels rectilinear and often rectangular, the whole treatment being suggested by the moulded constructional timber of earlier roofs.
There was no end to the variety which the workmen imparted to the simple constructional features which were the groundwork of the design.
In the case of full-sized monoplanes constructional details had most to do with the use of tractors; but monoplanes are now being built with propulsive screws.
In models this aspect ratio may with advantage be given a higher value than in full-sized machines, where it is well known a practical safe constructional limit is reached long before theory suggests the limit.
Here, again, constructional considerations again come to the fore, and in the case of wooden propellers one of two blades is of far more easy construction than one of three.
Upon the corners of the peripteral building inclined piers were often retained, as a reminiscence of the original enclosure wall as well as for greater constructional security.
Little reference was made in them to the advance of artistic or constructional methods from age to age.
The Doric became restricted to porticos and peristyles, and, in double-storied interiors, to the lower order, for which important constructional functions it was fitted by the great solidity of the column.
Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
It is only now and then, in the decorations to books which he printed himself, in the magnificent woodcuts for Thornton's Pastorals, in some of the Dante illustrations, that he quite frees himself from a pretence of constructional drawing.
There are two kinds of drawing which I will call rhythmical and constructional, although, of course, there is rhythm in all good constructional drawing and some construction in all good rhythmical drawing.
The advance in constructional details and rolling stock is by no means less marked.
Their architectural interest is derivable from the constructional and ornamental details dwelt upon by Mr. Street, to whose excellent account of the building the reader may be referred.
The subdivision of the whole surface into regular compartments allows of a concentration of strength in the skeleton lines, and gives great constructionalstiffness without too much formality.
A great deal of constructional work was immediately necessary in assembly and communication trenches, as well as in the completion of the necessary advanced dumps of munitions and stores of all kinds.
The nice adjustment of head-caps and corners, although of no constructional value, are the points by which the forwarding of a book is generally valued.
The advantage of using the point of a folder to mark up the constructional lines of a pattern instead of a pencil, is that the lines so made are much finer, do not rub out, and do not cause confusion by interfering with the pattern.
The majority of them are examples of an architecture that has not been surpassed for majesty, beauty, size, and constructional skill.
He must render his subject so that the constructional divisions of the window keep their proper architectural place; if his subject will not allow that, he must abandon his subject, or give very good reason why not.
Leaves, stalks, and fruits are glazed in light colour upon dark, and bounded by the constructional lines of lead.
Of the two extremes, the bold, even the too bold, acknowledgment of the constructional lines of a window, is far preferable to the timid attempt to conceal them.
Or, to account for it in another way, windows of considerable size coming into vogue, it became necessary, for constructional no less than for artistic reasons, to subdivide them by mullions into two or more lights.
It should be noted that this constructional figure is applicable only to comparison of airships of similar size, speed and service requirements.
Secondly, referring to the lift, this constructional figure indicates the relative useful or pay loads carried with the smallest amount of material used in the ship itself, because the ship, which must also be carried is "dead weight.
What are the chief constructional peculiarities of the relative pronouns?
Pronouns, compound, constructional peculiarities of --Pronouns, faultiness and discordance of most Eng.
Of the larger churches Burgos alone has a really large constructional choir.
You must prevent prices rising so much, and so many constructional goods being made during the period of active trade; and I am not going to pretend that that is an easy thing to do.
Her scientists are probing the constructional problems connected with large airships, while efforts are being made, by financial and other assistance, to maintain her technical staffs and airship bases in existence.
What seem to be (for the true constructional character of the ceiling is not here guaranteed) what seem to be the beams, the constructional part of the ceiling, were of light-colored walnut.
There is still for the student of such matters the constantly growing respect for the logical acumen of the builders, who insert nothing for mere ornamentation but who make their constructional members tell as decorative features.
Now in all this highly organized and florid art there was a general abandonment of the constructional principle which had been the root of the earlier Gothic, and there was no new constructional device or system invented to take its place.
The great pendants into which these ribs disappear, and which themselves form the basis of the fan-vaulting system, are of course without constructional value.
Timber for constructional purposes is found freely in this zone, reaching far up to the higher region of the cold lands.
As has been shown, the country is rich in woods for constructional and cabinet purposes.
Mahogany and other cabinet woods, and timber for constructional purposes, abound in the various zones, and some seventy-five kinds are enumerated, as shown on another page.
