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Beautiful pictures from a book called – ‘JAPANESE DESIGN THROUGH TEXTILE PATTERNS by FRANCES BLAKEMORE.
Bold white Chrisanthemums contrast with the delicate line of the spray of small flowers.
These ornamental bats would have been appropriate on a midnight-hued silk.
The abstract wave resembles the scales of the fish as depicted here. Variations of the scale design were used in fabrics as talismans against evil.
Crossed double bars resemble the wooden re-enforcements at the top of a well and were chosen by the Chinese as the ideographical representation for the word ‘well’
Fans, flowers, birds and young willows would suggest an outdoor festival to a young Japanese girl. A fabric for a happy occasion.
The bush clover above is spaced like a modern painting. Almost two hundred years ago Toyokuni dressed a princess in a kimono using this pattern.
The plum bravely blooms before winter is gone. It is one of the three plants known as the ‘companions of the great cold’. The others are the bamboo and the pine.
An illusion of shading is accomplished through variations in the widths of lines in both the still water and the sprays of grass that invite the dragonfly.
Swallows in the rain, their shadows expressed in hollow dots.
The mood of a midsummer night, a firefly on the edge of a globe of light.
Looking down on the geese flying over water. A pattern made long before the air age. These patterns form eddies.
A joyful flock of birds.
I could go on and on, and I make no apologies for pinching the authors words, they are as lovely as the pictures.
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