being a teacher on such subjects are rarely to be met
with, all combined. Mr. Newton, in his "Essays on Art
and Archaeology," p. 37, says that "the archaeologist
should combine with the aesthetic culture of the artist,
and the trained judgment of the historian and the
philologist, that critical acumen, required for
classification and interpretation; nor should that
habitual suspicion which must ever attend the scrutiny
and precede the warranty of evidence, give too sceptical
a bias to his mind." Such authorities have been
interrogated on each part of my subject.

[2] Quoted by permission of the Editor.

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION. 1

CHAPTER I.--STYLE.

Definition of style--Development of style--Primitive--
Archaic--Egyptian--Babylonian--Phoenician influences
on early Greek style--Decoration of hangings of the
Tabernacle in the wilderness--Aryan ideas--The Code of
Manu--Indian art--Celtic style--Greek art in dress and
embroideries--Homer's descriptions of embroideries--Pallas
Athene--Shield of Achilles--Roman art--Byzantine art--Art
of Central Asia--Its arrival in Europe--Art of China,
Japan, and Java--Christian art--Scandinavian art--The Dark
Ages--Sicilian textile art--Renaissance--Arabesque--
Grotesque--Spanish Plateresque--Style of Queen Anne and the
Chippendales--Louis XV. style--Classical revival--Young
England's style--Nineteenth century style 14

CHAPTER II.--DESIGN.

Artist and artisan--Prehistoric design--Naturalistic
design--Egyptian immutability--Slow evolution of
design--Greek perfection--Necessity of following rules--M.
Blanc's laws of ornamentation--Laws of composition--
Repetition--Alternation--Symmetry--Progression--Confusion--
Designs for hangings and dress materials--Floral design--Design
for carpets--The conventional--First principles 54

CHAPTER III.--PATTERNS.

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 con