252 TEXTILE ART IX RELATION TO FORM AND ORNAMENT. 



(Fig. ;J58), and otliei- equally striking exanaples are to be found in 

 other American countries. The classic surface decoration.? known 

 and used in Oriental coimtries from time immemorial prevailed in 

 indigenous American architecture at a stage of culture lower than 

 any known stage of classic art. 



It may appear that I have advocated too strongly the claims of 

 the textile art to the parentage of geometric ornament and that the 

 conclusions reached are not entirely satisfactory, but I have endeav- 

 ored so to present the varied phenomena of the art that the student 

 may readily reach deductions of his own. A correspondingly care- 

 ful stud.N- .,f utlier brandies of art will probably enable us finally to 

 forma just cstiiiiatr of 1 lie I'i'lat i \ c iiii]ii >i'ta-nne (if the forces and 

 tendent'ics concerned in 11 \o|ii(ioii of decoration. 



