Bazley's Spiral
Pictures by Thomas S. Bazley
Fine white loops sweep in a spiral around a small black rosette in this pattern from Thomas S. Bazley's 1872 Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame. Bazley made it on a lathe, turning a screw a fixed amount between each curve, and printed it white on black. A birthday card for someone who loves a beautiful, precise pattern.
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On the back
From the great books of mathematics / BAZLEY'S SPIRAL / From Thomas S. Bazley, Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame, London, 1872 / Thomas Bazley set these loops in a spiral by turning a screw a fixed amount between curves, on a lathe fitted with Holtzapffel's epicycloidal cutting frame. He printed it, white on black, in 1872.
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