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TEXTILE ART IN REI-ATIDN TO FORM AND ORNAMEN1 



rials, its symbolic characters, and its iiiiportauce to cstlii-f jc )nnii;ress. 

 My object in this section is to indicate the part it takis in tixtilc de- 

 sign, its methods of expression, the processes by which it advances 

 in elaboration, and the part it takes in all geometric decoration. 



It will be necessary, in the first jilace, to examine briefly the normal 

 tendencies of mln- (■oinbiiiation while still niidiT tin- dircrt dniuina- 

 tion of const nut i\c clalmr.-it inn. In the way nf illusti'atii.ii. let us 

 take first a series of lilanients. say in the natural coldr of tlie material, 

 and pass through them in the simplest interlaced style a second series 

 having a distinct color. A very simple geometric pattern is pro- 

 duced, as shown in Fig. 315. It is a sort of checker, an emphasized 

 presentation of the relievo pattern shown in Fig. 291, the figures 

 running horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Had these fila- 

 ments been accidentallv associated in construction, the results might 



Fig. 315. Pattern produced by interlaciug strands of different colors. 



have been the same, but it«is unnecessary to indicate in detail the 

 p(jssibilities of adventitious color combinations. So far as they ex- 

 hibit system at all it is identical with the relievo elaboration. 



Assuming that the idea of developing these figures into something 

 moie tl.iboiate and ^tiiking is already conceived, let us study the 

 ]iio( t --M s ami t( ndi la u s of growth. A very slight degree of inge- 

 iiuitN wiUdj.ibli tht A\ orkman to vary the relation of the parts, pro- 

 ducing a succession f)f results such, perhajis. as indicated in Fig. .'ili;. 



figrures produced by 



