The fewer interlacings in twills as compared to other weaves allow the yarns to move more freely, and therefore they are softer and more pliable, and drape better than plain-weave textiles. Twills also recover from creasing better than plain-weave fabrics do. When there are fewer interlacings, the yarns can be packed closer together to produce high-count fabrics. With higher counts, including high-count twills, the fabric is more durable, and is air- and water-resistant.
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The New York Times. 9 Aug 1987. In the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Thomas Cahill struck a similar note, describing Brendan as a ‘lusty, bawdy, teeming, festooning, dancing marvel of a book’. He continues: ‘Within its crafty interlacings, we can read its buoyant meaning: that life, for all its woes, is essentially a comedy.’Thomas Cahill.
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Geometric interlacing patterns are common in Islamic ornament. They can be considered a particular type of arabesque. Umayyad architectural elements such as floor mosaics, window grilles, carvings and wall paintings, and decorative metal work of the 8th to 10th centuries are followed by the intricate interlacings common in later medieval Islamic art. Interlaced elaborations are also found in Kufic calligraphy.
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Arscott studied at Newnham College Cambridge and the University of Leeds. She is an expert on art of the Victorian period and has lectured at The Courtauld since 1988. From 2009 until 2014 she was Head of Research at The Courtauld with responsibility for the Research Forum programme of activities and for The Courtauld’s research strategy and Research Excellence Framework submission. She has published extensively on Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, including the book Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris: Interlacings (2008).
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In a twill weave, each weft or filling yarn floats across the warp yarns in a progression of interlacings to the right or left, forming a pattern of distinct diagonal lines. This diagonal pattern is also known as a wale. A float is the portion of a yarn that crosses over two or more perpendicular yarns. A twill weave requires three or more harnesses, depending on its complexity and is the second most basic weave that can be made on a fairly simple loom.
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France had taken over from Italy as the center of artistic bookbinding during the early sixteenth century. Political upheaval in Italy, the Sack of Rome in 1527, the French occupation of Milan, and the Franco-Ottoman alliance had caused innovations such as gold tooling and the use of high-quality Morocco leather to reach to France, where they were swiftly embraced and refined. It has proved difficult to identify the binder(s) of many of the Mahieu books. In later years Mahieu favoured plainer styles of binding, but the earlier commissions are distincively rich: punched and gilded backgrounds show a surface of sprinkled dots as a foil for coloured interlacings and arabesques.
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Taneyev would continue this series of contrapuntal exercises until he had exhausted every polyphonic possibility. Only then would he actually begin composing music.Leonard, 207 Rimsky-Korsakov described Taneyev's compositional process similarly, but with more telling detail: > Before setting out for the real expounding of a composition, Taneyev used to > precede it with a multitude of sketches and studies: he used to write > fugues, canons, and various contrapuntal interlacings on the individual > themes, phrases, and motives of the coming composition; and only after > gaining thorough experience in its component parts did he take up the > general plan of the composition and the carrying out of this plan, knowing > by that time, as he did, and perfectly, the nature of the material he had at > his disposal and the possibilities of building with that material. Taneyev's rationale for this process stemmed from his belief that truth and moral integrity in music were synonymous with its objectivity and purpose.
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