Shima shima : Volume 2 / [chosakusha Furuya Kōrin]

Furuya, Kōrin · 1906 · Kyōto : Yamada Unsōdō · 40 pictures

Shima shima volume 2 is a Japanese pattern book of textile designs compiled by Furuya Kōrin and published in Kyoto by Yamada Unsōdō in 1906 for designers and dyers. Its pictures are flat, hand-coloured striped and banded fabric samples in muted browns, greens and blues, showing how simple stripes, wave lines and geometric motifs repeat across a cloth, which a designer might take as models for rhythmic all-over pattern.

Textile design · Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) · Decoration and ornament

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