Some of the textiles we know best, those patterns or forms or motifs that have influence our own lives are the classics – the designs that were made at seminal historical points.
Simple things such as William Morris’s willow pattern wallpaper that has never gone out of print, the arabesque, the scroll, blue and white delft, Chinese celadon and porcelain, silk and silk painting…as infinitum
Classic architecture was ground breaking in its time and its legacy lives on through the Classical orders, pediments, torus and ovolo…..