Elements Of ArtPattern

PatternA design for decorating a surface composed of a number of elements (motifs) arranged in a regular or formal manner. Motifs-One or many distinctive and recurring elements, forms, shapes, or figures that make up a design.

HistoryFor Centuries, Obtaining Fashionable Clothing That Also Fit Properly Was Difficult To Do. The Wealthy Hired Tailors Or Professional Dressmakers To Sew Custom-fit Fashions. However, Those Of Lesser Means Muddled Through With Old Clothes, Makeshift Fashions That Were Ill-fitting, Or Lived With Re-made Hand-me-downs.

However, by the early nineteenth century, some women's magazines included pattern pieces for garments such as corsets in order to assist women in obtaining fashionable dress. Since the pieces were simply illustrated on a small magazine page and just a few inches in size, they were not easy to use. About the time of the Civil War, tailor Ebenezer Butterick developed the mass-produced tissue-paper pattern sized according to a system of proportional grading

The Buttericks established a company in New York City and began mass-producing ladies' dress patterns by 1866. It is reputed that Butterick alone sold six million clothing pattern by 1871. James McCall, another pattern entre-preneur, produced women's clothing patterns shortly thereafter as well. At last American women could obtain a well-fitting, rather stylish garment by using a mass-produced clothing pattern

Techniques:PrintingFabric is wovenFair isle (technique)Fair Isle is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, a tiny island in the north of Scotland.

Symmetrical pattern When motifs in a pattern are symmetrical, and the pattern looks the same when flipped or turned.Asymmetrical Pattern A pattern lacking visible signs of symmetry. There is absence of symmetry in the motif. .

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Types of patternsAirbrushImitating effects produced with a painter's spray air gun. Often creates patterns with a light, soft, and modern look

AnthemionA classical motif based on a stylized honeysuckle plant or a radiating, fan-shaped palm leaf (palmette) commonly found in Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, and other ancient art

BotehA stylized teardrop-shaped design originally on shawls from Kashmir and mass-produced in Paisley, Scotland

District CheckA check pattern that originates from uniforms identifying specific Scottish estates. Famous district check patterns include the Glen checks, the Shepherd, the Dupplin, the Benmore, and others

DitzyA ditzy (ditsie) is an allover design of small buds, circles, zigzags, and other elements that are simple, eccentrically silly, and may be funny

Dotted SwissA pattern of small, evenly spaced raised dots (usually on a thin, lightweight fabric).

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