Patterns

 

The type of water powered cotton spinning mill and its factory system Richard Arkwright invented in 1771 at Cromford powered the industrial revolution.  The stamps celebrate textile design.

1982: British Textiles (Design - Peter Hatch)

I start with the most famous of them which was the 

15½p 'Strawberry Thief' (1883) pattern created by William Morris and printed in his factory.  It took days to produce and  was Morris and Co's most expensive fabric but also the most popular, the 19½p of scarlet tulips is an anonymous and untitled design printed in 1906 by F Steiner and Co, a company sometimes called the William Morris of the 20th Century.
26p a design by the artist Paul Nash who was commissioned by Eresta Silks to produce seven designs, this one he called 'Cherry Orchard' and was screen printed on silk in 1930, 29p Andrew Foster's 1973 design 'Chevron' for Textra Furnishing Fabrics. Used for curtains it was screen-printed cotton, a method that eliminated the production of expensive engraved rollers. 

1976: Europa - Handicrafts

Away from the sound of the factory floor some floral embroidery from Switzerland and

2012: Geometric Shapes

time to have  fun with an octahedron

large or small

Sunday Stamps theme - Patterns -  see them everywhere at See It On A Postcard