Book of Designs: Katazome mihonchō
Katazome mihonchō is a Japanese pattern sample book of 1680 compiled for dyers and textile makers, presenting stencil-dyed fabric swatches as numbered reference blocks. The pages show grids of dark indigo-toned squares, each filled with a different small repeating motif of dots, lines, waves, and lattices, which a designer could draw on for surface pattern and repeat ideas.
