Decorative and fancy textile fabrics : with designs and illustrations (1898)
Lord, R. T · London : Scott, Greenwood & Son ; New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 147
140 DECOEATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS. floral designs show no fewer than ten changes of colour in the warp in about 2| inches. In special cases, portraits and pictorial effects are produced with remarkable results. In a portrait, for instance, the lights and shadows are procured with a delicacy… … Fig. 81. design a thing of this description is a matter of skill and experience. It is quite necessary to understand the value of every dot put upon ruled paper, as, for example, in a black and white portrait, single grey dots representing black weft would go through with white ground weft, thus…
Textile design · Textile fabrics
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