Designs for textiles (?) with scrolling motifs, geometric patterns and semi-abstract patterns

Designed by Jules Dumas French
Lithographed by Georges Schlatter French
Published by Fleury Chavant French

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Page of book containing 185 leaves with a collection of lithographs, aquatints, engravings, and other media, with ornamental designs published by Fleury Chavant in Paris, part of the publication "Guide du Dessinateur de l'industrie: une macédoine de dessins variés , tels que fleurs, ornemens, etc. ... Ouvrage destiné aux fabricants et dessinateurs de soieries... et Papiers Peints..." This plate contains eight designs for textiles, executed with shades of gray inside squares to emulate swatches of fabric. The first design is made up of semi-abstract bubbles with small, semi-abstract floral motifs on a gray ground with dark gray stipples. The second design consists of a similar pattern of semi-abstract bubbles containing branches with small fuits and semi-abstract flowers, on a white ground with gray diagonal stripes. The third design is made up of abstract swatches of different sizes, executed with two shades of gray. The fourth design is made up triangles, rendered alternatingly with stipples and stripes, and thin parallellograms over a white ground with gray diagonal zig-zagging lines. The fifth design is made up of scrolling motifs executed with shades of gray and black. The sixth design is made up of scrolling leaves executed with black over a clear ground with diagonal intermittent lines. The seventh design is made up of semi-abstract branches containing small, semi-abstract fruits, over a striped ground of alternating black stripes and white stripes with thin, horizontal, black lines. The last design is made up of thin, vertical, undulating garlands with roses and leaves over a striped, white and gray ground with a network of semi-abstract, diagonal, black lines.

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