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Design in textile fabrics

Ashenhurst, Thos. R. (Thomas R.) · 1899 · London : New York : Cassell · 8 pictures

A textbook on textile design by Thomas R. Ashenhurst, published in London and New York by Cassell in 1899 for students and practitioners of fabric pattern-making. Its pictures are diagrams of woven interlacings and geometric repeats in line hatching, plus a plate of blue and brown floral stripe patterns, offering a designer clear models of how warp and weft structures and diagonal repeats build up a fabric surface.

Textile design

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