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The anatomy of pattern (1894)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 92

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rizontal stripes in his design, adanger which is imminent when the repeatsoccur always side by side on the same level. The printers block, we will say, is a square ;or the roller is its equivalent; or the cardstake that form. In the printed or wovenstrip, whether paper, cretonne, silk, or whatnot,… … The Drop Pattern. 35 piece of the stuff will fit on to the left ofanother, and so on. But it is clear that the design may be socontrived that each succeeding breadth has tobe dropped in the hanging. If this drop were only very slight—saythree inches—it would take seven breadths,in a pattern of 21…

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