北斎模様画譜
A Meiji-era 1891 Japanese pattern book, the Hokusai Mayo Gafu, published by Shueido and credited to the ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai, offered to artisans and designers as a catalogue of geometric motifs. The pictures are black line diagrams of interlocking circles, lattices, stars and key-like repeats, each with small handwritten Japanese notes, so a designer might take away ready-made tessellations and modular repeat structures for textiles, tiles, or screens.
