Arts and crafts essays . tabby being tied by the warpvery often, the satin much more any case, the patterned webs pro-duced by mechanical weaving, if the ornament is to be effective and worth28 the doing, require that same Gothic and clearness of detail whichhas been spoken of before: the geo-metrical structure of the pattern, whichis a necessity in all recurring patterns,should be boldly insisted upon, so as todraw the eye from accidental figures,which the recurrence of the pattern isapt to produce. The meaningless stripes and spotsand other tormentings of the sim
Arts and crafts essays . tabby being tied by the warpvery often, the satin much more any case, the patterned webs pro-duced by mechanical weaving, if the ornament is to be effective and worth28 the doing, require that same Gothic and clearness of detail whichhas been spoken of before: the geo-metrical structure of the pattern, whichis a necessity in all recurring patterns,should be boldly insisted upon, so as todraw the eye from accidental figures,which the recurrence of the pattern isapt to produce. The meaningless stripes and spotsand other tormentings of the simpletwill of the web, which are so commonin the woven ornament of the eighteenthcentury and in our own times, shouldbe carefully avoided : all these thingsare the last resource of a jaded inventionand a contempt of the simple and freshbeauty that comes of a sympatheticsuggestion of natural forms: if thepattern be vigorously and firmly drawnwith a true feeling for the beauty of line and silhouette, the play of light and 29. I Textiles, shade on the material of the simpletwill will give all the necessary invite my readers to make anothercomparison : to go to the South Kensing-ton Museum and study the invaluablefragments of the stuffs of the thirteenthand fourteenth centuries of Syrian andSicilian manufacture, or the almostequally beautiful webs of Persian design,which are later in date, but instinct withthe purest and best Eastern feeling ;they may also note the splendid stuffsproduced mostly in Italy in the laterMiddle Ages, which are unsurpassed forrichness and effect of design, and whenthey have impressed their minds withthe productions of this great historicschool, let them contrast with them thework of the vile Pompadour period,passing by the early seventeenth centuryas a period of transition into will then (if, once more, they3° have real artistic perception) see at once Textiles,the difference between the results ofirrepressible imagination and lo
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