Design and Tradition / A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts

by Amor Fenn

Mechanical Production, Printed and Woven

In textiles, where such mechanical processes as printing and weaving are involved, the design is restricted to the unit, the repetition of which is infallible both as to form and colour.

Apart from colour, the surface interest consists of suggested or actual contrasts of texture, the result of veining and striating leaves and flowers or of patterning forms or backgrounds with smaller details.