244 TKXTILK AKT IX IIKLATION Tl) FoliM AM) OKNAMKNT. 



So habit and association carry tlio geometric systmi inln ;m1vimi- 

 titious decoration. When the ancient Peruvian excciilnl a (li'si<;ii in 

 cohjr \ipon a woven surface (Fig. 350), using a pencil m- l)riish. the 

 result was hardly less subject to textile restraint. 



As a matter of course, since there are two distinct styles of decora- 

 tive design — the textile and the free hand — there exist intermediate 

 forms partaking of the character of both; but it is nevertheless clear 

 that the textile system transforms or greatly modifies all nature 

 motives associated with it, whether introduced into the fabric or ap- 

 plied to its surface. 



In countrii's wlici-c ilii' tcxtili' ai'f is uiiiiiii" irtaut and the textile 

 system of (liHi .rat idii docs iml (.hti-iidc itself. Irci' hand methods may 

 prevail to siicli an cxli'iit that the gcdnictric influence is but little 

 felt. The Haidah Indians, for example, paiut designs with great 

 freedom and skill, and those applied to woven surfaces are identical 

 with those executed upon skins, Avood, and stone, but this art is doubt- 

 less much modified by the means and methods of Europeans. Our 

 studies .should be confined wholly to pure indigenous art. 



EXTENSION UP TEXTILE ORNAMENT TO OTHER FOR.MS OF ART. 



T ba.vc n..w dwelt af siiflicient length upon I lie (diaracier nf the 

 lexlile system (if (ii-nainenf and have laid es|iecial stress n|».ii the 

 niaiiiier in whieli it is interwoven with the teehnit'al cunsl il ntiim of 

 the art. I have illustrated the remarkable power of the art by wliieli 

 <lec(ii'a.tive elements from without, coming once within the niagii- 

 iidhieiice. are seized upon and remodeled in accordance with the laws 

 of textile coiidiiuatiim. Pursuing the investigation still fui-ther it is 

 found tliat the dominion of the textile system is not limited to the 

 art, but extends to other arts. Like a st rong race of men it is not to 

 be confined to its own original habitat, but spreads to other realms, 

 stamping its own habits and character upon whatever happens to 

 come within its rr:\r]\. Its influence is felt throughout the whole 

 range of those arts with which the esthetic sense of man seeks to 

 associate ideas of beauty. It is necessary, before closing this ])aper. 

 to examine briefly the character and extent of this inlhienee and to 

 describe in some detail the agencies through whiidi the results are 

 aceoni])lished. First and most important are the results of direct 

 transmission. 



H<. use building, or aivhitecl ure as it is called in the higher stages, 

 is in |ii-iinitive times lo a great extent textile; as culture develops. 

 othei- materials and other systems of construction are employed, and 

 the residtant forms vary accordingly; but textile characters are espe- 

 cially sti-ong and persistent in the matter of ornament, and survive 

 all (dianges, howsoe\'er(-ompletc. In a similar way other branches of 

 art differentiated in mati/rial and function from the parent art in- 



