Textile design; a working manual of approved practice in all details of the art of designing the various kinds of textile fabrics, together with practical applications of the principles of textile coloring and systematic methods of cost finding (1909)
American School of Correspondence, Umpleby, Fenwick. [from old catalog] · Chicago, American school of correspondence · leaf 73
derstand the drafting of the cloth known as Damask.Instead of straight-over drafts, damask designs are usually wovenby means of what is termed a diamond draft; that is, a draft thatruns from the front harness to the back harness and then returnsto the front in the opposite order, thus forming a… … Fig. 104. The length or number of picks in the repeat of the design isworked out on the same principle as the draft for the warp. (SeeFig. 105.) Whatever variety, therefore, is adopted for theground work or plan, according to the foregoing explanations, theresult of the extended pattern will be…
Textile design
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