IN ISSUE #7: Pillar Prints & Patchwork Fields
The early nineteenth-century mania for stripes created a vogue for a pattern variation that textile historians today call pillar prints. Pillar prints echo the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome with stripes assuming the form of fluted, rounded columns interrupted by ornate capitals and garlands of flowers.
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