. Colour in woven design . te weft, and%. 70 with exactly the same order of weft as warp two simple schemes, forming this compound, workharmoniously together. The three-odd thread groupingconstituting the A sections of the fabrics, yields a species oftextural effect which affords prominence to the small spacesof black, grey, and white composing parts B. There is in 240 COLOUR IN WOVEN DESIGN. these samples congruity of effects. This is one of the mainelements of a well-arranged compound. It is an invariablecondition of all descriptions of designing that the formsamalgamated, if the


. Colour in woven design . te weft, and%. 70 with exactly the same order of weft as warp two simple schemes, forming this compound, workharmoniously together. The three-odd thread groupingconstituting the A sections of the fabrics, yields a species oftextural effect which affords prominence to the small spacesof black, grey, and white composing parts B. There is in 240 COLOUR IN WOVEN DESIGN. these samples congruity of effects. This is one of the mainelements of a well-arranged compound. It is an invariablecondition of all descriptions of designing that the formsamalgamated, if the result is pleasing to the eye, help tosuitably develop each other, and yield in unison a well-balanced and effective scheme of ornamentation. Even inthe smallest textural effects, resulting from combiningvarious systems of shade-arrangement, this principle ofdesign has to be taken into account. For example, thecheck style given in fig. 73 would not form a satisfactorypattern if combined with the check furnished in fig. Fig. 70. This is all the more remarkable, because both styles arecomposed of similar arrangements of shades, and haveprecisely the same colour constituents. The character ofthe respective checkings is, however, very different. In the patches of colours are so grouped as to yield abroad and clearly-pronounced series of effects, whereasfig. 70 is a compound of various minute types of wovendesign; hence the incongruity which would ensue fromtheir amalgamation. The elements of figs. 69 and 70 are,on the other hand, exceptionally suitable for the stripe first, which possesses much neatnessand yet force of arrangement. It is a style that may be COMPOUND COLOURINGS. 241 utilized in various ways. Should, for instance, bands Aand B be varied in width, a range of useful patterns fordress and mantling textiles may be produced. Thus, stripesaveraging from two to four inches in width, in mellowshades of twist or self-coloured yarns arranged on


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