The Vienna Workshops is an artistic and industrial association founded in 1903 by architect J. Hoffman, artist K. Moser and industrialist F. Werndorfer, who made a significant contribution to the development of textile ornamentation. J. Hoffman (who was influenced by the Scottish architect C.R. Mackintosh) continued his bold experiments in the use of smooth planes and volumes in architectural structures. J. Hoffman was a follower of the Gesamtkunstwerk concept and he paid special attention to the textile ornamentation which should be reflected in a single style set by architectural forms. In the initial period of activity of the Vienna workshops from 1903 to 1910, the artists of the association developed a special type of geometric ornaments, which were distinguished by the innovative ways of building rapport compositions using the simplest shapes: squares, rectangles, ovals, rhombuses, etc. The new structures of the ornamental motifs had a striking individual manner and were used in a variety of products of the Viennese workshops. The article introduces for the first time into scientific circulation sketches and a book of samples of textile products for 1908 of a French enterprise supposedly owned by C. Steiner, with geometric patterns by Viennese workshops. These rare materials were provided by a private collector from St. Petersburg. The next important stage in the association’s activities began after the opening of the textile department in 1910 and was associated with the development of stylized floral motifs in a primitive manner. Following the artists of Munich, the Viennese workshops turned to the folklore tradition and proposed new textile designs with large floral and foliage forms. They were characterized by a planar image of elements, the use of graphic possibilities of lines, spots and shading of local colors. The fabrics of the Viennese workshops were a great success with contemporaries and were used to create women’s outfits and in interior design. Innovative geometric and floral patterns of fabrics in a primitive manner had a noticeable impact on the products of textile factories in Europe in the first decades of the 20th century.