A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament

Name: A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament
Author: William Henry Holmes

by William Henry Holmes

Chapters

Collections

Browse all

🎨

Art

74 titles

Details

Full title

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)

Language

Duration

Loading book content...

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2006-02-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Indian textile fabrics -- North America Decoration and ornament Textile industry Textile fabrics E011

About the author

William Henry Holmes

1846–1933

An artist, explorer, and scientist all at once, this remarkable 19th-century American helped shape how museums and scholars understood the ancient cultures and landscapes of the American West. His career moved easily between painting, geology, archaeology, and anthropology, making him one of the Smithsonian’s most versatile figures.

View all books