GAO CHUNMING - Exquisite Fabrics: Traditional Chinese Weaving and Embroidery Patterns

Shanghai: Better Link Press, 2010. Hardcover. Illustrated by 1300 color plates; Massive and beautiful, "an impressive compilation of over one thousand traditional Chinese designs found in weaving and embroidery. Known as zhiwen or wen in ancient China, these traditional patterns are the products of brilliant artistic skills that have been passed down from one generation to the next...in a beautiful slipcase, this book presents a wide and comprehensive range of classical design motifs that include dragons, phoenix, birds, auspicious animals, floral patterns, insects and fish, figures and religious and allegorical motifs" -Publisher ; 12; 618 pp.. As New; 11 x 16 Hardback in Slipcase in As New condition.