DOI issue:
No. 70 (January 1899)
DOI article:Strange, Edward F.: Textile patterns from Suffolk rood-screens
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0274
Textile Patterns
ments into which the vine-like growth is distributed.
This detail occurs in several of the other patterns
illustrated, varying in the treatment until in Fig. 10
it almost approaches the flower of the pink ; but
nowhere else is its use—independent of any sug-
gestion of growth—so formal and characteristically
Oriental. The triple fruit borne by the vine sup-
plies a rich variation to the simplicity of the central
figures and is placed with great skill.
The examples shown in Figs. 4, 6, 9, and 10 make
up an interesting group in which the main element is
a bunch of flowers generally arranged in conjunc-
tion with a well-known form which suggests some-
times a thistle, sometimes an artichoke, sometimes
a pomegranate. In Fig. 4 this is placed within,
and, indeed, occurs as a growth from, the vine which
encloses it; but in Fig. 6 the details are treated
more formally, and with a suggestion of construc-
tion rather than growth. Fig. 9 will be seen to be
in all essentials the same pattern as Fig. 4, although
the formality again completely changes the general
result and produces an effect quite different from
that obtained on the Southwold screen. In Figs. 6
and 10 it will be noticed that the nosegay consists
of cut flowers tied with a ribbon and used quite
independently.
The two examples shown in Figs. 8 and 11 are
remarkable for the increased prominence given to
the indented form on which the floral centre is
placed. In the earlier specimens this was compara-
tively subordinate ; but it now assumes a much
greater relative importance—not, it must be ad-
mitted, with any compensating gain of beauty.
But in Fig. 12 the whole of the framework dis-
appears and we have a diaper consisting of the simple
fruit—here, undoubtedly, the split pomegranate—
ments into which the vine-like growth is distributed.
This detail occurs in several of the other patterns
illustrated, varying in the treatment until in Fig. 10
it almost approaches the flower of the pink ; but
nowhere else is its use—independent of any sug-
gestion of growth—so formal and characteristically
Oriental. The triple fruit borne by the vine sup-
plies a rich variation to the simplicity of the central
figures and is placed with great skill.
The examples shown in Figs. 4, 6, 9, and 10 make
up an interesting group in which the main element is
a bunch of flowers generally arranged in conjunc-
tion with a well-known form which suggests some-
times a thistle, sometimes an artichoke, sometimes
a pomegranate. In Fig. 4 this is placed within,
and, indeed, occurs as a growth from, the vine which
encloses it; but in Fig. 6 the details are treated
more formally, and with a suggestion of construc-
tion rather than growth. Fig. 9 will be seen to be
in all essentials the same pattern as Fig. 4, although
the formality again completely changes the general
result and produces an effect quite different from
that obtained on the Southwold screen. In Figs. 6
and 10 it will be noticed that the nosegay consists
of cut flowers tied with a ribbon and used quite
independently.
The two examples shown in Figs. 8 and 11 are
remarkable for the increased prominence given to
the indented form on which the floral centre is
placed. In the earlier specimens this was compara-
tively subordinate ; but it now assumes a much
greater relative importance—not, it must be ad-
mitted, with any compensating gain of beauty.
But in Fig. 12 the whole of the framework dis-
appears and we have a diaper consisting of the simple
fruit—here, undoubtedly, the split pomegranate—