Textile Designs of Japan, 3 Volumes
Osaka: Japan Textile Color Design Center, 1959. Hardcover. Three volume set. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering, color illustrated dust jackets, decorative end pages, top edge gilt. Volume 1 is 84 pp of text followed by 184 pp of plates in bw and color. Volume 2 is 83 pp text followed by 175 pp of bw and color plates. Volume 3 is 69 pp of text followed by 168 pp of bw and color plates. VG-/Good+ (light edgewear to boards and text block, light staining to block. Pages and plates are otherwise clean and clear. Dust jackets have wear overall with small tears). Item #178777
Volume 1 is "Designs Composed Mainly in Free Style". Volume 2 is "Designs Composed Mainly in Geometric Arrangement". Volume 3 is "Designs of Ryukyu, Ainu and Foreign Textiles." Volume 1 is "Designs in free style, unique in Japanese textiles, depicted from all the design sources of plants, nature, animals and manufactured objects, and shown in rich various forms." Volume 2 Designs in geometric arrangement that have relatively been neglected and seldom introduced abroad, such as stripes, checks, medallions, honeycombs, lattices, vertical serpentine bands, etc. This volume with so many charming and rich designs will be a surprise for you." Volume 3 is "Designs of the Ryukyus and of the Ainu which have elements essentially different from Japanese designs, and of foreign origins that had significant influences on Japanese designs.
They are also important in study of contemporary Japanese textile designs." - Dust jacket descriptions.
OCLC: 690943
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