Editing Arabesque (section)

==Printing==
A major use of the arabesque style has been artistic printing, for example of book covers and page decoration. Repeating geometric patterns worked well with traditional printing, since they could be printed from metal type like letters if the type was placed together; as the designs have no specific connection to the meaning of a text, the type can be reused in many different editions of different works. [[Robert Granjon]], a French printer of the sixteenth century, has been credited with the first truly interlocking arabesque printing, but other printers had used many other kinds of ornaments in the past.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Henry Lewis|title=Decorative Ornaments and Alphabets of the Renaissance: 1,020 Copyright-Free Motifs from Printed Sources|date=1991|publisher=Dover Publications|location=New York|isbn=9780486266053}}</ref> The idea was rapidly used by many other printers.<ref name="Hoefler Text: Arabesques">{{cite web|title=Hoefler Text: Arabesques|url=http://www.typography.com/fonts/hoefler-text/features/hoefler-text-arabesques-patterns|publisher=Hoefler & Frere-Jones|access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="English printers' ornaments">{{cite book|last1=Plomer|first1=Henry R.|title=English printers' ornaments|date=1924|publisher=Martino Pub.|location=Mansfield Center, CT|isbn=9781578987153|url=https://archive.org/details/englishprinterso00plom|access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="Historic Design in Printing">{{cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Henry Lewis|title=Historic Design in Printing|date=1923|publisher=Graphic Arts Company|location=Boston, MA|url=https://archive.org/details/historicdesignin00john|access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref> After a period of disuse in the nineteenth century, when a more minimal page layout became popular with printers like [[Giambattista Bodoni|Bodoni]] and [[Firmin Didot|Didot]], the concept returned to popularity with the arrival of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]], Many fine books from the period 1890–1960 have arabesque decorations, sometimes on paperback covers.<ref name="The craftsman and the critic : defining usefulness and beauty in arts and crafts-era Boston">{{cite book|last1=Brandt|first1=Beverly K.|title=The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Arts and Crafts-Era Boston|date=2009|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|location=Amherst|isbn=9781558496774|page=67}}</ref> Many digital [[serif font]]s include arabesque pattern elements thought to be complementary to the mood of the font; they are also often sold as separate designs.<ref name="Moresque 2D">{{cite web |title=Moresque 2D |url=http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/2d-typo/moreske-2d/ |website=MyFonts |access-date=17 August 2015}}</ref>

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File:Design for a Cup for Jane Seymour, Hans Holbein the Younger and Workshop.jpg|Design for a Cup for Jane Seymour, [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], 1536, with zones in both Islamic-derived arabesques or [[moresque]]s, and classically derived [[acanthus (ornament)|acanthus volutes]]
File:Moresque ornament, Peter Flötner.jpg|Arabesque or [[moresque]] ornament print, by [[Peter Flötner]] (d. 1546)
File:Schultheiss.png|Arabesque or moresque borders in a print by [[Peter Flötner]]
File:DE 23 246127X 006.gif|Arabesque/moresque printers ornament, German, 17th century
File:SignBernardMelun.png|Arabesque pen flourishes on a signature
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