A catalogue of the museum of ornamental art, at Marlborough House
A catalogue of the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House, issued in London in 1854 by the Department of Science and Art as a record of objects held for public instruction in design. The pictures are small woodcut-style diagrams of looped and interlaced cords, lace grids, and braided knots, drawn in plain black line on white with numbered figure captions. A designer could take from them the structure of plaited and netted textile patterns, which translate well into repeat motifs for trims, borders, and grid-based surface pattern.
