pre-esthetic

Updated: June 12, 2025

The wall of an ancient Pueblo estufa, or ceremonial chamber, built in the pre-esthetic period of architecture, antedating, in stage of culture, the first known step in Egyptian art, is encircled by a band of painted figures, borrowed, like those of the pottery, from a textile source.

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)