A text book dealing with ornamental design for woven fabrics (1897)
Stephenson, Charles, Suddards, F · London : Methuen ; Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 80
the rectangular floor space ; similarly acertain amount of waste occurs at c, D, e, and F in theprocess of cutting off the lengths in the order of the lettersappended, and in fitting the drops together, amountingaltogether to about one yard. In Diagram 12 the samespace is carpeted with a pattern… … DESIGN FOR CARPET, DROP PATTERN. 63 THE DROP PATTERN [four yards. It may be said that this is an extreme case, but,at the same time it stands to reason that there is lesslikelihood of waste in a drop pattern because the repeats fitat half the height; and, whereas in the latter the greatestpossible…
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