filamental

Updated: April 30, 2025

First, it is found that in the practice of primitive textile art a variety of methods of combination or bindings of the parts have been evolved and utilized, and we observe that each of these no matter what the material or what the size and character of the filamental elements gives rise to distinct classes of surface effects.

William Henry Holmes - A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages: 189-252)

Woven fabrics include all those products of art in which the elements or parts employed in construction are largely filamental and are combined by methods conditioned chiefly by their flexibility. The processes employed are known by such terms as interlacing, plaiting, netting, weaving, sewing, and embroidering.

William Henry Holmes - A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament: Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the: Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85,: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages: 189-252)