The Classification of Regular Repeating Patterns
Michael Andrew Hann · DergiPark (Istanbul University) · 1990
In the immediate wake of the Great Exhibition of 1851, a small number of notable studies concerned withpattern werepublished hobably the most significant contribution amongst these was OwenJones' "The Gmmmar of Ornament", published in 1856. An important step towards the further classification of pattern was made in 1910 with the publication of Christie's "Pattern Design" (then "Traditional Methods of Pattern Designing'?. From the viewpoint ofpattern in textiles, the most significant early attempt to classify repeatingpattern types according to geometrical principles was made by Woods in 1935and 1936 when hepresented a system ofpattern classification borrowed from the discipline of crystallography. Since the publication of Woods' study, a number of useful works, which have focused on the geometrical classification ofpattern, have appeared. The objectives of this paper are firstly to review the relevant litemture and secondly to present a system for analysing and classifiying textile patterns according to their symmetry characteristics