Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period | 
|  | | | Title: | Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period | | Author: | Susan Meller
Joost Elffers | | Publisher: | Harry N. Abrams | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 May, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0810925087 / 9780810925083 | | List Price: | $45.00 | | You Save: | $15.30 | | Amazon Price: | $29.70 | |
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"Textile Designs is a dazzling, informative fabric encyclopedia of archival beauty. It is a necessary tool for the fashion industry, schools, and libraries." —Women's Wear Daily "An iconography of textile motifs and a vocabulary of pattern. . . . Highly recommended." —Choice Never before have printed textiles been celebrated in a book of this magnitude. Now in paperback, Textile Designs is the indispensable sourcebook for the colorful patterned materials that have been used in fashion and interiors for the past 200 years. Organized not chronologically or geographically but by motif—Floral, Geometric, Conversational, Ethnic, and Art Movements and Period Styles—this bible of textile design presents a stunning cross-section of the materials of everyday life: printed calicos and cottons, flowered cretonnes and chintzes, polka-dot silks and foulards. With its informative text and pattern names provided not only in English but also in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, this is a must-have for everyone interested in color and pattern.
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Customer Reviews:
• Nice Job!!!!!! 19 December, 2007
Finally a book that has everything I needed about fabrics.... lots of history and images to die for!!!! NICE WORK!!!! For its price, I would never of thought its contents was going to be so valuable!!!! I would buy this book OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!
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• Essential Resource 31 January, 2008
This book is an essential resource for anyone wanting to reproduce historical clothing - use it to train your perception, use it as a dictionary of style names, use it as a quick, well organized reference. I love it and make my studio help and design interns study it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AJN2PC15PX06M
• Excellent Reference Book 17 April, 2008
A must for any textile designer.
This beautiful book is divided into textile themes and offers an amazing range of style, colour and subject.
A great source of inspiration for any surface designer or illustrator.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ANSP7XP5DTM2U
• Source Book 26 April, 2007
This book is a fabulous resource for artists and designers. Unlike many textile books, it is not arranged by cloth, but by the patterns on the cloth. Every time I open this book, I find something new. There isn't much text, which is fine by me, just plenty of eye candy.
- Reviewed by customer ID: APJZ47BX4OV1B
• It's Awsome! 02 August, 2007
I've already known this book, because of this I've bought it!
It's really great ideia to have one if you are a Fashion and Patern Design!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1L7BW7YIKIHJJ
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