A text book dealing with ornamental design for woven fabrics (1897)
Stephenson, Charles, Suddards, F · London : Methuen ; Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 241
roducing afurther variety of ornamental form. The use of animal forms for the purposes of clothdecoration seems perhaps somewhat incongruous, and insome fabrics they would be obviously out of place ; theycertainly cannot be so generally used as plant forms, whichcan be brought into service as the… … Sicilo-SdTaccorc . xaccor* A Saracenic, sr certf* EXAMPLES OF ANIMATE FORMS IN TWELFTH CENTURY FABRICS. 224 ANIMATE FORMS IN TEXTILE DESIGN The only admissible rendering of animal forms is a veryabstract one, and it is impossible to conceive of a realistictreatment of them being agreeable in any…
Textile fabrics · Design
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