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An introduction to the study of textile design

Barker, A. F. (Aldred Farrer), 1868- · 1903 · New York : E.F. Dutton · 13 pictures

A 1903 New York textbook by A. F. Barker, an introduction to textile design aimed at students and weavers, with its pictures built from numbered weave drafts, grid diagrams and thread-interlacing charts. The plates show twill and double cloth structures as dark and light squares on graph paper, so a designer can borrow the pattern logic of woven geometric repeats, checkerboard blocks and diagonal interlacings.

Textile design

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