Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 203
(Plate 119.) If, at the end of a piece of material, the weft-threads (parallelto the end) be drawn-out, the remaining warp-threads will form asimple Fringe. If we give the end greater security, by knotting ortieing the threads together in tufts, we get the ordinary Fringe. TheFringe, however, is… … The Tassel. Plate 118. 190 The Fringe, the Valence, and the Lace Border. Richer tyi^es of Fringes may be produced either by variety ofi\\e edge, so that tufts of unequal lengths form rhythmically alternatinggroups (fig. 2), or by using several thicknesses of Fringe, lying onebehind the other, (fig.…
Decoration and ornament · Art objects
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