Lewis F Day

Art in Needlework (Esprios Classics) Lewis F Day

Lewis Foreman Day (29 January 1845 - 18 April 1910) was a British decorative artist and industrial designer and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He was an influential educator and wrote widely on design and pattern. His Cantor Lectures on Ornamental Design for the RSA (1886) led to a series of publications, including The Anatomy of Pattern (1887), The Planning of Ornament (1887), Pattern Design (1903), Ornament and its Application (1904), and Nature and Ornament (1908-9). He published in many journals, including the Magazine of Art, the Art Journal and the Journal of Decorative Art. Other books were Windows (1897), Stained Glass (1903), Alphabets Old and New (1898) and Lettering in Ornament (1902).