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Geometrical Mason Floor Cloth.
GEOMETRICAL MASON FLOOR CLOTH .
AMONGST tho many curious products of labour and ingenuity which are to be seen by the world at large in the world's Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 , there will be many less curious and extraordinary in several respects than a painted oilcloth , which has been the leisure amusement for eleven years past of Mr . James Pitt ,
Quay-street , Manchester , who , having at length completed it , has presented it to the Masonic Lodge over which ho presides . In addition to the symbolic beauty which gleams upon the vision of " the free and accepted , " the peculiar effects , the result of concentric geometrical forms , squares , cubes , parallelograms , etc ., combined with a tasteful alternation of colour , light , and shade , make the
work as extraordinary , even to the artistic as to the ordinary eye . The precision of perspective with which every form is delineated is not the least striking feature of this work . The floor cloth is 16 feet by 10 feet ; its centre is covered by the representation of the sun , white in the centre , diverging into lemon and orange-coloured rays ; it is formed of seven centres or stars , each of sixteen points ,
and by its bright hue , gives great effect to the chequered squares and circles around it . There are 22 large squares set diamond-wise , forming the outer border , and as mauy triangles to complete the border ; and within these 156 smaller squares , filled by circles , each circle having its peculiar pattern , and being adorned by 16 smaller stars . The extraordinary effects are chiefly visible in the
outer border , where chequered or tesselated pavements have quite new forms given to them : being made spiral and concentric in various ways , not easy to describe . In one of these larger squares , only 16 inches square , there are no less than 7 , 540 diamonds , diminishing as they approach the centre till they become like minute points . The work has been valued at 500 guineas ; but we
should like to see the man who would devote so many years to the work for that sum . Copied in marble , it would cost many thousand pounds . Bro . Pitt , we understand , has been somewhat late in making application for wall space in the Crystal Palace ; but we hope his extraordinary production will be seen there amongst the other productions of Manchester men .
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Geometrical Mason Floor Cloth.
GEOMETRICAL MASON FLOOR CLOTH .
AMONGST tho many curious products of labour and ingenuity which are to be seen by the world at large in the world's Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 , there will be many less curious and extraordinary in several respects than a painted oilcloth , which has been the leisure amusement for eleven years past of Mr . James Pitt ,
Quay-street , Manchester , who , having at length completed it , has presented it to the Masonic Lodge over which ho presides . In addition to the symbolic beauty which gleams upon the vision of " the free and accepted , " the peculiar effects , the result of concentric geometrical forms , squares , cubes , parallelograms , etc ., combined with a tasteful alternation of colour , light , and shade , make the
work as extraordinary , even to the artistic as to the ordinary eye . The precision of perspective with which every form is delineated is not the least striking feature of this work . The floor cloth is 16 feet by 10 feet ; its centre is covered by the representation of the sun , white in the centre , diverging into lemon and orange-coloured rays ; it is formed of seven centres or stars , each of sixteen points ,
and by its bright hue , gives great effect to the chequered squares and circles around it . There are 22 large squares set diamond-wise , forming the outer border , and as mauy triangles to complete the border ; and within these 156 smaller squares , filled by circles , each circle having its peculiar pattern , and being adorned by 16 smaller stars . The extraordinary effects are chiefly visible in the
outer border , where chequered or tesselated pavements have quite new forms given to them : being made spiral and concentric in various ways , not easy to describe . In one of these larger squares , only 16 inches square , there are no less than 7 , 540 diamonds , diminishing as they approach the centre till they become like minute points . The work has been valued at 500 guineas ; but we
should like to see the man who would devote so many years to the work for that sum . Copied in marble , it would cost many thousand pounds . Bro . Pitt , we understand , has been somewhat late in making application for wall space in the Crystal Palace ; but we hope his extraordinary production will be seen there amongst the other productions of Manchester men .