Contemporary Kimono Patterns (Tōsei hiinagata)
A Japanese pattern book of 1677 by Hishikawa Moronobu, printed from woodblocks for kimono designers and dyers, showing kimono outlines filled with motifs. The pictures are pure line drawings of kimono shapes with ropes, flowers, leaves, waves, lattice and water patterns, a clear model for a designer planning all-over textile repeats and placed motifs on garments.
