Decorative silks
Decorative silks by Otto von Falke, published in New York by William Helburn in 1922, is a plate-based survey of historical silk textile designs for readers in the textile and decoration trades. Its pages show woven and printed patterns from Byzantine, Egyptian, Spanish and other periods, with damask motifs, medallion roundels, and floral and geometric repeats that a designer could adapt for modern fabric and surface pattern.
