A text book dealing with ornamental designs for woven fabrics

Name/Title

A text book dealing with ornamental designs for woven fabrics

Entry/Object ID

sc.TS1475.S73 1905

Collection

Lilo Markrich Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

borders, ornamental (decorative arts), textile design, weaving

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Label

Location

Inside front cover

Transcription

"RADCLIFFE MANUFACTURER'S ASSO" / RADCLIFFE / Urban District Council. Technical School. Presented to Mr. Ernest Parkinson. Prize awarded for Success in Cotton Weaving Ord: 2nd. year. Session 1908-9. / S. Mills, Secretary.

Language

English

Material/Technique

Painted

Book Details

Author

C. Stephenson, F. Suddards

Edition

Third

Publisher

Methuen

Place Published

City

London

Date Published

1905

LCCN

75301590

Notes

Length: 314

Location

Shelf

Special Collections

Room

Library

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

I. Preliminary suggestions -- II. Geometric design. -- III. How to plan an all-over repeating design. -- IV. The drop pattern. -- V. The "turn-over" design and how to plan it. -- VI. Some different plannings. -- VII. The "sateen" arrangements. -- VIII. Borders, corners, angles, and stripes. -- IX. Laws of Ornamental Composition. -- X. Why nature should be conventionalised. -- XI. The structure of ornamental flowers and foliage. -- XII. The treatment of plant forms in textile design. -- XIII. Traditional or abstract ornament. -- XIV. Animate forms, properties, etc., in textile design. -- XV. Limitations imposed by the structure of a fabric.