Théorie de la fabrique
Théorie de la fabrique is a French textile-design manual from 1850, a technical treatise on weaving and fabric construction aimed at manufacturers and designers of woven cloth. Its pictures are plates of woven samples, pattern grids and motif diagrams, showing how repeats, motifs and tie-ups translate into cloth; a designer can take from them the logic of geometric lattices, bird and floral repeats, and the squared-paper grid method.
