Stripes: A Survey of Fabric Designs

A zigzag tour of the form of stripes through seventy years of fabric design.

Nearly 600 pictures of historic fabric swatches from all over the world across seven decades provide a virtual treasure chest of design ideas, from the prim floral fashions of the 1940s to the outrageous color combinations and painterly couture fabrics released by the top design houses in Paris during the 1960s.

Brilliant photographs provide a visual survey of stripes' many forms, from woven—in to imitation wea...