fictile
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The fictile art is the offshoot and has within itself no predilection for decoration.
From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by Holmes, William Henry
The inferiority of their religious architecture was due to the natural formation of their country, which restricted them almost entirely to the use of a fictile material.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
Examples of this kind of weaving may be obtained from the fictile remains of nearly all the Atlantic States.
From Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 393-425 by Holmes, William Henry
It was much used for the ornamentation of friezes and interiors, for the decoration of fictile vases, the borders of dresses, &c.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
In the first none of the fictile ware was turned on the wheel or fire-baked.
