Textile Design and Colour; Elementary Weave and Figured Fabrics (1912)
Watson, William F.T.I · London [etc.] Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 314
from side to side. Because of this, and for the reason stated in reference to half-drop designs (p. 289), the rectangular system of arranging a unit figure in the drop-reverse order is frequently preferable to the other bases. Particularly is this the case when the principal figure is not well… … Fig. 347. — t repeat, while the length (only rather more than one- half is shown) is nearly three times the width. When a very large figure is arranged in a narrow repeat, as shown in Fig. 412, an appearance is given to the design of having been woven in a larger capacity of jacquard, and thus has…
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