Ward, James, 1851-1927 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 56
that three-fourths of conventional ornament con-sists of diapers; nearly all woven fabrics patterns, themajority of paper-hanging designs, patterns produced byweaving or painting, either from blocks or rollers, tilepatterns—in fact, any pattern that repeats from the fourcardinal points over a… … repeat. The derivation of the word comes from lingecVYpres? being the name given to the linen of thatpeculiar pattern, composed of squares, and such likesimple ornament placed close together, and was first madeat Ypres, in Flanders. Some of the best examples ofpure diaper patterns are to be found…
Decoration and ornament
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