ABSTRACT
Textile industries were one of the most important product groups from an economic point of view, so they were the butt of criticism and analysis. Whether in relation to design, copyright, production, and employment methods, textile products were widely discussed by practitioners, reformers and critics alike. This chapter discusses the problems associated with schools of design and especially those provincial ones that were established to try and improve the application of art to the local industries. It considers how the application of the principles of Ornamental Design to the peculiarities and necessities of manufacture is to be taught. The various manufactures of textile fabrics, cotton, wool, and silk, perhaps the most extensive and important in a commercial point of view, depend largely for their success upon the right application of the principles of Ornamental Art; and Schools of Design are established in most of the districts where they centre.
