Author: Japanese textile samples.
Title: A sample book of bright patterned silk, much of it creped.
Description: n.p. [1920s or 30s]. 30x21cm flexible boards; about 800 or more swatches on both sides of 50 double folded leaves. Well used with pieces clipped from many swatches and the occasional missing piece. ¶ This is probably the most vivid and cheerful sample book I've had. I would have guessed these are artificial silks but random picks discovered only silk. Cheap and cheerful has been a marketing ploy for centuries but every now again there is reversal; these were not so cheap.
Keywords: applied arts textiles kimono Japan c19th c20th pattern book samples silk design Asia silk chirimen
Title: A sample book of bright patterned silk, much of it creped.
Description: n.p. [1920s or 30s]. 30x21cm flexible boards; about 800 or more swatches on both sides of 50 double folded leaves. Well used with pieces clipped from many swatches and the occasional missing piece. ¶ This is probably the most vivid and cheerful sample book I've had. I would have guessed these are artificial silks but random picks discovered only silk. Cheap and cheerful has been a marketing ploy for centuries but every now again there is reversal; these were not so cheap.
Keywords: applied arts textiles kimono Japan c19th c20th pattern book samples silk design Asia silk chirimen
Price: AUD 600.00 = appr. US$ 415.12 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 11021
- Book number: 11021