Chapter 3

Ancestry of patterns--Classification--Their historical value--Primitive patterns--The wave--Tartan--Prehistoric African patterns--The naturalistic--Flowers--Shells--Indian forms of naturalistic patterns--Egyptian--The lotus-- Sunflower--Celtic Zoomorphic patterns--The human figure on Greek textiles--Animal forms in Oriental patterns--Symbolical and conventional patterns--The wave patterns--The palm leaf-- The cone--Gothic--Arab--Moresque--The Sacred Hom--Egg and tongue--The cross--Swastika--Fylfote--Gammadion--The crenelated pattern--The Ninevite daisy--Emblematic patterns--Bestiaria--Volucraria--Lapidaria--Byzantine patterns--Gothic--Renaissance--The cloud pattern--The fundata--Italian--French patterns--Radiated patterns--The shell--Patterns by repetition--Balcony pattern--Chinese wicker-work--Survival of a pattern--Opus Alexandrinum--Quilting patterns 82