Book description
This is a book for students treating in a practical way of the anatomy,
planning and repeated ornament. Originally published in 1903. When it
came to the revision of The Anatomy of Pattern with a view to a fifth
edition, it seemed to me I had done all I could do to it, that it was
past mending, and that the simplest thing would be to start afresh. The
present volume, however, though it covers the ground of the former one,
and answers much the same purpose, is not the same, but really a new
book upon the foundations of the old one, It contains, indeed, all that
was in the other, but otherwise expressed. Here and there an explanation
or description, which, by revision after revision, had been reduced to
the fewest and plainest words I could find, has been allowed to stand.
So with the illustrations, the greater number of them are new. Many of
the earliest books on weaving, textiles and needlework, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and
artwork.
