An Album of Textile Designs Containing Upwards of 7,000 Patterns Suitable for Fabrics of Every Description
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A Victorian pattern book by Thomas R. Ashenhurst, head master of the Bradford Technical School, presenting over 7,000 numbered weave patterns for textile fabrics. The patterns are printed as small black-and-white drawdowns and grouped by the number of ends in the repeat, from 7 up to 16, with a draft at the start of each series. A preface and introduction explain how the patterns are classified and indexed. They also show how to combine them, for example in stripes that put one pattern in the ground and another in the stripe, by using straight and broken drafts on the heralds. Cross-references under each pattern link related patterns, and many are based on ordinary twills.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1881
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 222
- Weaving drafts
- on 205 pages: 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 193 more
- Archive notes
- Free WIFs of the patterns in his book are available at www.handweaving.net
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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