Textile Designs: 200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics arranged by Motif, Colour, Period and Design - Softcover

Susan Meller; Joost Elffers

 
9780500283653: Textile Designs: 200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics arranged by Motif, Colour, Period and Design

Synopsis

Newly available in paperback, this volume remains unsurpassed as the biggest and most lavish survey of printed textiles ever published. Textile Designs presents a comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration over the last 200 years. Here are the bright and hugely enjoyable materials of everyday life - the printed calicos and cottons, the flowered cretonnes and chintzes, the polka-dot silks and foulards. These are presented by motif and pattern under flye separate headings: Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles, and illustrated in nearly 2,000 colour reproductions. Textile Designs is not only indispensable to professionals in the fashion and decoration fields everywhere, but will also be an inspiration to designers in the graphic and visual arts, a reference book for collectors and a delight for aesthetes everywhere.

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About the Author

Susan Meller is the owner of the Design Library and Design Loft in New York, which has one of the largest documentary textile design collections in the world. Joost Elffers is a Dutch publisher.

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9780500236284: Textile Designs: 200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics Arranged by Motif, Colour, Period and Design

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ISBN 10:  0500236283 ISBN 13:  9780500236284
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1991
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