2-756-603 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

French Renaissance block printing and embroidery, (1898). 'Figs 1, 2 and 4: Patterns in relief-printing, 17th century. Fig 3: Pattern in flat printing, 17th century. Fig 5: Border on an embroidered carpet in the Musée du Louvre, 16th century....With the term "block printing" we designate the printing or stamping of a certain repeated pattern on stuff [fabric]'. Plate 60 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]