Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 36
st not be pressedtoo hiard, or you may squeeze something verylike a false idea out of it. It might becontended that all patterns are formed onthe square, or all patterns, at least, that canbe woven, the threads forming the squares onwhich the design is laid. This is obviouslyabsurd. The only… … Pattern Dissection. \ i belong, not to the pattern, but to its trans-lation into a textile fabric. If instead of the chess-board we take thelines of the lattice, and work upon them, weget, without departing from those lines (only-intermitting them) a wonderful range of inter-lacements and the like…
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