Identifying an old photograph

[Redroger]

If the brickwork pattern is named "Diaper" then I guess it is named for its creator, who, if he is in fact American deserves all our sympathies as does his relative? who had his name given to the nappies.

[oldtimer]

"Diaper" isn't named after a person - it is a very old English word for material with a pattern of diapers on it i.e. diamond shapes. When, what we call nappies were first made, they were, I think, diamond shaped, so they were called originally diapers.

The name stayed in the US, but in Britain, they eventually became called nappies, short for napkins.

The word "faucet" has a similar history - many British people think of it as a strange American name for a tap, but it is actually an old English word that was gradually replaced by "tap".

[Redroger]

So did the person I knew named Diaper get his name from nappies or diamonds? Or from the old  English version? Also I have seen the word faucet spelt Fawcett in American publications, and with a capital F. The implication to me was that a person named Fawcett had patented the tap, and it was named after him, in much the same way as Thomas Crapper became associated with toilets.