[Japanese textile designs]

1700 · 14 pictures

An undated album of Japanese textile pattern samples, catalogued with a 1700 date and held by the Clark Art Institute Library, showing printed or dyed fabric swatches mounted in pairs and numbered in Japanese characters. The swatches show stylised repeats of diagonal rain-like hatching, wavy lines, maple leaves, plum blossom and fine crosshatch grids, in indigo blue and olive or dark tones, which a designer could adapt for surface pattern and repeat design.

Design · Textile fabrics -- Japan

Internet Archive · Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library