Textile Designs : 200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics Arranged by Motif, Colour, Period and Design Paperback
by Susan Meller, Joost Elffers
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Newly available in paperback, this volume remains unsurpassed as the biggest and most lavish survey of printed textiles ever published.
Textile Designs presents a comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration over the last 200 years.
Here are the bright and hugely enjoyable materials of everyday life - the printed calicos and cottons, the flowered cretonnes and chintzes, the polka-dot silks and foulards.
These are presented by motif and pattern under flye separate headings: Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles, and illustrated in nearly 2,000 colour reproductions.
Textile Designs is not only indispensable to professionals in the fashion and decoration fields everywhere, but will also be an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for collectors and a delight for aesthetes everywhere.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:464 pages, 1823 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication Date:29/04/2002
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- ISBN:9780500283653
Information
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:464 pages, 1823 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication Date:29/04/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780500283653
