Bazley's Rosette

Pictures by Thomas S. Bazley

Bazley's Rosette, a lace of white looping lines on a black disc, comes from Thomas S. Bazley's Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame, published in London in 1872. Bazley cut the design on a lathe fitted with a set of gears that swept the cutting point round and round in loops, then printed it as white lines on black. For a birthday, for someone who loves a beautiful pattern.

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On the back

From the great books of mathematics / BAZLEY'S ROSETTE / From Thomas S. Bazley, Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame, London, 1872 / Thomas Bazley cut this on a lathe fitted with Holtzapffel's epicycloidal cutting frame, a set of gears that sends the cutting point round and round in loops. He printed his designs as white lines on black in 1872.

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