Textile section from Historic Ornament: Treatise on Decorative Art and Architectural Ornament
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Chapter VI, "Textile Fabrics," extracted from James Ward's Historic Ornament (1897, pp. 295-318). It surveys the history of weaving and textile ornament: linen in Egypt and Europe, the Jacquard machine, the spread of silk from China to Byzantium, Persia, the Saracens, Sicily, Italy, France and England, and a section on the textiles of India (kincobs, Dacca muslin, Cashmere shawls, cotton printing). It closes with notes on wool, worsted, cotton, fustian, and the inventions that mechanized spinning, weaving and printing. Illustrations show Assyrian tree-of-life motifs and silk damasks, brocades and velvets from Saracenic, Sicilian, Florentine and Italian sources, with commentary on pattern development.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1897
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 25
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