Designer's Guide to Japanese Patterns

By Jeanne Allen

Book Overview

Edo period artists were sequestered from the outside world by Imperial edict, thus the elements are fresh, unique, untainted by concurrent artistic themes in Asia or the West. Thoughtful exploration... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877014930
• ISBN13: 9780877014935
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Edo period 1605-1868

Sunset magazine April 2003 issue uses patterns from this book to create floor cloths (hand painted canvas used as a rug). Comprehensive collection of graphic elements from kimono, lacquer boxes, Samurai leather vestments, fans, umbrellas, screens, woodcuts based every day objects: water lilies, tools, waves, fish, butterflies. Edo period artists were sequestered from the outside world by Imperial edict, thus the elements are fresh, unique, untainted by concurrent artistic themes in Asia or the West. Thoughtful exploration of graphic simplicity expressed as repetitive elements.