Book of Designs (Hon jirushi Shin Komon chō 本印 新小紋帳)
A Japanese pattern book of 1700 with handwritten numbered labels, made as a sample catalogue of textile designs for dyers and clients. Its pages show rows of dark square swatches, each stencil-dyed with a small repeating motif such as dots, lattices, stripes, or woven grids. A designer might take from it the dense, all-over small-scale pattern logic of Edo-period komon textiles, where a tiny repeat reads as a single texture from a distance.
