By Ville Andersen and John Hood-Williams on the work of Dr Margaret Lowenfeld

ORIGINS OF THE TEST

EUROPEAN folk-art, and in particular the decoration used in National Costumes, is based on a small range of simple geometric forms. Within the traditions of any one community, local variations can be found, so that the trained observer can often identify the village of origin of, say, a piece of embroidery.

Margaret Lowenfeld had noted these phenomena, and they raised in her mind questions about the possibility of investigating the differences in a systematic way.