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Textile design and colour; elementary weaves and figured fabrics (1921)

Watson, William, F.T.I · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 259

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designs that are not geometrical in form it is necessary todivide one repeat into small spaces in the same manner as in di-afting a sketch design.Different methods of accomplishing this are employed, one of which consists of firstmaking a sketch of the figure. A copy is readily made upon… … pasted, at two opposite edges, on to a sheet of plain paper, and the outline of the figureis pricked round with a fine needle. By placing a piece of carbon paper between thecloth and the sheet of paper, with the carbon side downwards (it is better to use paper which is carbonised on one sideonly)…

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