The patterns are naturalistic, not flat and conventionalized. They are as buoyant and fresh as a June morning. They haven't the artistic distinction of the Persian or perhaps even of the French, but they are fun. And they can be used in many modern homes where formality is out of place.
There were other types of English design, of course, because fashions changed with changing architectural and furniture styles. With the classic revival at the end of the eighteenth century we find the brothers Adam designing rugs to reflect on the floor their elegant plaster ceilings.
There are no free flowers here, but delicate urns, swags, medallions, rosettes and frets, very closely related to the French design of the same period, Louis XVI.
In the early nineteenth century, with the Regency, we find classic motifs too, but in the Victorian era, the biggest, gayest bouquets that ever were, blossomed on English floors.
