Cotton Painting and Printing in the Madras Presidency
A 1917 Madras government publication by W.S. Hadaway on cotton painting and printing in the Madras Presidency, with plates of printed block patterns for textiles. The pictures are sheets of repeating motifs: dense paisley-like vine and floral repeats, lacy geometric grids, and small scattered sprigs, rendered in dark ink on cream paper. A designer could take from them ready-made repeat structures, border strips, and block-print motif vocabulary for surface pattern work.
