Textile Designs:200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics arrange
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Textile Designs:200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics arrange by Susan Meller
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.
'A beautiful book.. page after page of colour... it has something for everyone' - The Textile Society Magazine
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780500283653 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500283656 |
| Title | Textile Designs:200 Years of Patterns for Printed Fabrics arrange |
| Author | Susan Meller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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