[ART NOUVEAU].

[ART NOUVEAU]. Documents d'art décoratif. Trente planches en couleuers et en noire. Paris, Librairie Renourd, H. Laurens (ca 1910).

. Folio. Thirty mounted plates, of which sixteen in colour, on thick card board. As issued loose in original cloth-backed illustrated portfolio with cotton ties. Title page slightly browned but otherwise in excelllent condition. First edition. A collection of various Art Nouveau designs for ceramics, decorative panels, jewellery, furniture, silver and ironworks, jewellery, etc made by renowned artists at the time including Roubille, Brandt, Bacard, Daurat, Bacard and Ségaud. Moreover, there are many textile patterns from this period which dates back to previous centuries. Some of the plates were also published in "Documents de décoration moderne" issued about 1900.

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Book number: 100760

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, art nouveau, jugend, design, exploration, france, french, decoratif, decoration, konst, art, textiles, textile,

[KIMONO DESIGNS]

Hana Aoi. Shiga, Nishiyama Kihei, about 1906.

. A large-sized album with one hundred coloured woodblock prints protected by tissue guards. Folio. (32.8 x 22.8 cm). With printed numbers in Japanese. Ribbon-bound in traditional Japanese style. Original coloured paper wrappers, worn, some losses along edges. Hand-written title on upper cover. Preface dated 1906.A splendid work showing lovely designs for kimonos with images of mainly flowers but also of plants, trees and birds. Several include cranes, which symbolise luck and longevity in Japan. The images are woodblock-printed in beautiful, rich colours of which many with metallic highlights. Some minor staining, especially in margins. The tissue guards have darkened with age but protect the images well. We believe that this scarce zuan-ch› (design album) belonged to a kimono maker Nishiyama Kihei in Shiga prefecture. It's marked "nor for sale" in Japanese on colophon page.

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Book number: 121366

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, kimono, textile, design, fashion, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, woodcut, illustrated

[JAPANESE MEN KIMONO SAMPLES].

"Iwa no Tamotsu". [A manual with 110 stylish textile samples]. No date, ca 1930.

. A large size manual (36 x 25.5 cm). Contains 110 samples, of varies sizes, mounted on heavy paper. Twenty-two leaves bound in fukuro-toji style. Contemporary boards, gold speckled, some discolouration on upper cover, title painted in blue on upper cover.A handsome manual with sophisticated textile samples for male kimonos. The patterns are mainly traditional geometric but there are also some with figurative and floral designs. The colours are discreet, mainly blue, black and various red tones, some with silver elements. We don't know who it belonged to but probably a refined tailor's shop. Due to the numbering (111 to 220), we assume that this is a manual out of several.

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Book number: 121171

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, textile, kimono, fabrics, samples, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, clothes,

[JAPANESE TEXTILE SAMPLES]

"Kogire-cho" [An album with ancient exclusive fabric samples]. End of 18th century or beginning of 19th century.

. An appealing collector's album with old selected textile samples. (Size: 11.3 x 15.3 x 4 cm). Leporello-folded. Thirty pages with several swatches on each page (on one side only). The samples are pasted on plain white paper surrounded by gilt paper. Cloth binding, rubbed. A few small wormholes. Housed in an old wooden box (19th century). The collection comprises 178 different sublime samples including beautiful Kiran and Donsu brocade and damask using gold or silver threads. Also samples of Sarasa chintz are inserted. A charming and exclusive album with a lovely collection of superior Japanese textiles. We don't know the owner of the album but we believe the collection was assembled by a knowledgeable textile connoisseur.

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Book number: 121276

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, textile, fabric, design, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

[JAPANESE TEXTILE SILK SAMPLES].

Some Orimono Hyohon. (Dyed fabric samples). Types no. 6. Nihon Senshohoku Hyohonsha (Japan Fabric Dyeing Sample Co.). Kyoto, 1927 - 35.

. Oblong folio (47.5 x 24.9 cm). Pp. (77). A large-format ledger with 97 samples of Japanese silk for kimonos mounted on thick paper. With printed descriptive Japanese text. Original string binding with blue cloth covers, upper cover with white text. The swatches are dated between 1927 and 1935 so it seems that samples were added year by year as the string binding can be untied and retied.A collection of beautiful coloured silk samples which used to belong to a Japanese manufacturer of high-quality silk. Comprises sixty-three swatches measuring 16.5 x 18.5 cm, twenty-three larger (27.4 x 17.2 cm), five even larger (34 x 24.5 cm) and further six small at the end. Thirteen empty leaves. An impressive well-preserved album with a beautiful collection of stylish textile samples.

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Book number: 120894

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japon, japanese, textile, fabrics, sample, design, kimono, asia, asie, asien, asiatic,

ARDENNE DE TIZAC, JEAN HENRI D':

Les étoffes de la Chine. Tissus & Broderies. Paris, Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, ca 1915.

. Folio. Size: 39 x 29 cm. Pp. xii + 52 photogravure plates on heavy paper, sixteen with hand coloured details. The illustrations have French captions with the collector's name. Text and plates loose as issued in the original folder of illustrated yellow boards, cloth spine, cotton ties. A portfolio with rare and treasured ancient Chinese silk and velvet fabrics from the most prominent private French collections. Comprises images of embroidered clothes and garments. Scarce, especially in the original stunning boards.

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Book number: 100671

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textile, design,

FALKE, OTTO VON:

Kunstgeschichte der Seidenweberei. Berlin 1921.

. 4to. Pp. viii, 50 and 116 heliogravure plates with 484 photographs and 10 coloured plates, and 37 photos and reproductions in the text. Publisher's printed linen cloth, lightly worn, front inner hinge weak. Second edition of this classic history of silk weaving from around the world. It covers medieval silks from the Mediterranean region, Asia (Mesopotamia, Persian, Coptic, Byzantium, etc) and Europe, and it's development up to the 18th century. Yuan 2200.

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Book number: 100702

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, china, chinese, coptic, islam, arabic, ottoman, textile, textiles, silk

FURUYA, KORIN & FUJI, RINDO:

Orimon Zukan [JAPANESE NEO-RINPA DESIGN] Four volumes. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 31 (1902).

. A complete set of a woodblock-printed pattern book richly illustrated with designs and patterns mostly in the Neo-Rinpa style. Comprises 84 leaves with numerous designs beautifully printed, mainly in light and pale colours. Bound in the traditional Japanese fashion. Original paper covers with title handwritten in ink on upper covers. The covers with some staining but internally in fine condition.Furuya Korin was the key figure in the development of the Neo-Rinpa style in Japan at this time. The modern design was a combination of the traditional Japanese style and the Art Nouveau ornamental design. Furuya Korin was specialised in creating original woodcuts for this kind of pattern books used in decorative art including textiles, metalwork, carvings and ceramics. Rare, only listed in two western institutions (Cambridge and Cincinnati).

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Book number: 120981

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, design, illustrated, asia, asien, asiatic, textile, decoration, ornament, neo-rinpa

GRÖGER, MIKULASCHEK & CO.:

[MORAVIAN TEXTILE SAMPLES]. Bettzeuge no. III (Bedclothes). Sternberg, Mähren, no date (ca 1890).

. Oblong 8vo. Size: 25 x 11 cm. Leporello comprising 24 leaves with 232 tipped-in woven cotton samples, mostly striped and check patterns in red and blue, each given a hand-written number in ink. A few samples with some very light staining but overall in very good condition. Original bordeaux coloured cloth, blind-stamped with company name within ornamental frame, with paper label on upper cover, somewhat rubbed. Front end papers decorated in Jugend style.A very neat and well-preserved pattern book belonging to the weaving manufacturer Gröger, Mikulaschek & Co., from Sternberg in Moravia, today Sternberk in Czech Republic. Sternberg was an important centre of cotton and silk industry with more than 1000 mechanical weaving looms around 1900.

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Book number: 120759

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, austria, austrian, österrrike, czech, tjeckien, design, cloth samples,

GYÖRFFY, ISTVçN [HUNGARIAN FOLKLORE]:

Magyar népi h’mzések (Hungarian Folk Embroideries). I: A Cifraszür (The Ornamental Shepherd's Cloak) (all publ.). Budapest, J—szsef Kertész, 1930.

. Pp. 223. With 168 plates, of which 80 are b/w and 88 coloured plates pasted in, and two hundred illustrations in the text. The coloured plates have printed captions in Hungarian and German. Some browning to the paper. Some coloured plates (nos 29-36) are bound upside down. Half cloth on marbled paper boards which seems to be contemporary. Original printed front wrapper with pasted vignette bound in. First edition of this comprehensive monograph of the Hungarian szür, the traditional shepherd's mantle, decorated with the typical stylised floral ornamentation. Györffy worked for two decades on this work and collected more than one hundred coats during his travels. Now housed at the National Museum in Budapest. He studied extensively the historical material of the felt mantles, the technical tricks of the craft, and the method of sewing and ornamentation. Györrffy describes the different coat styles and types of flower decoration depending on the area, including Bihar county, Transylvania, the "Kunsâg", the "Hajdœsâg", Debrecen, Upper Hungary and Transdanubia. Rare and interesting work of traditional Hungarian folk embroidery with strikingly colourful illustrations.

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Book number: 121134

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, hungarian, hungary, ungern, embroidery, textile, design, folklore, handicraft, folk costume,

HENRI, ERNST (Ed.):

Broderies et décoration populaires Tchéco-Slovaques. Paris, about 1920.

. Folio. Pp. (6) including title, table and introduction. With 32 plates (with multiple images) pasted on grey stiff paper. As issued with loose leaves in original portfolio of cloth backed boards, decorated paper label on upper cover, cloth ties. The album contains many different kinds of embroidery found in Slovakia and the Czeck Republic (Bohemian and Moravian). According to the introduction the samples are taken from murals, clothes and other textilies, from the 12th century up to modern times.

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Book number: 100541

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, slovenia, slovenien, textiles, illustration, bohemian, moravian, slovakia, czeck,

KOSUGI, SUGIMURA & YOKOI, TOKIFUYU:

Dai Nihon Bijutsu Zufu (Illustrations of Japanese Decorative Arts). Eight volumes. Tokyo, Yoshikawa Hanshichi, Meiji 34 (1901).

. Four plate volumes: Large 8vo (18,5 x 25 cm). With 64 double-page colour woodcut illustrations. As issued with leaves folded in the oriental fashion in original decorative wrappers with title labels on upper covers. Covers lightly stained. Housed in a modern cloth folder. AND: Four text volumes: Lvs (18); (20), (10), (29) + illustrations. As issued in original decorated paper wrappers with title labels, somewhat stained. A complete set of a collection of traditional motifs and patterns of decorative art found on furniture, instruments, fans, ceramics, armour, kimonos etc. Content:I. Treasures from the Soshoin, Nara prefecture. Includes patterns on textiles, instruments etc.II. Treasures from famous temples. III. Designs of various decorative objects such as paper for calligraphy, fans, goods of Buddhism, utensils, etc.IV. Designs of decorative pieces such as armour, teacups, sliding doors, kimonos, etc.A very attractive set with images in fine impression and colours, unusual to find complete.

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Book number: 100645

Catalogue: Design

Keywords: Design, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, art, design, motifs, travel, exploration, illustration, textile, textil

NAGANARI, KODAMA :

Shinsen Kodai moy› kagami (Newly selected ancient patterns). Volume one (of two). Tokyo, Kin'eido (Okura Magobei) Meinjio 17 (1884).

. Size: 24.8 x 16.5 cm. Preliminary leaves and colophon in Japanese. With twenty-two leaves with multiple woodcut images depicting various designs and patterns for textiles, wallpaper, etc. Printed in lovely colours. As issued with double-folded leaves in original blind-stamped ivory wrappers, lightly soiled. With some wormholes at the very end of the book. Edited by Eisei Kodama.

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Book number: 100658

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, design, illustrations, textiles, exploration, design

PALOTAY, GERTRUDE:

Les elements turcs-ottomans des broderies hongroises / Oszmân-Török elemek a Magyar himszésben. Budapest, Magyar Történeti Mœzeum, 1940.

. Folio. Pp. 145. Parallel text in French and Hungarian. With fifty full-page plates (of which four in colour) depicting 184 photographic samples of different embroidery patterns on fabrics, clothes, arms, carpets, etc. Publisher's printed wrappers. With dedication by the author. First edition, limited to 400 copies. A comprehensive study devoted to various Turkish-Ottoman textile patterns in comparison with traditional Hungarian embroidery. (Bibl. Humanitatis Historica. VI.)

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Book number: 120375

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, textile, textiles, design, embroidery, hungary, ungern, hungarian, illustrated,

PAUL, WILLIAM CHRISTIAN:

Old Chinese Embroideries. A brief explanation of their symbolism. New York, Kwong Yuen & Co., (1929).

. Small 8vo. Pp. 15. With illustrations in the text. Original red and yellow decorated wrappers. A charming leaflet about various symbols in Chinese embroidery.

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Book number: 120766

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, kina, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textile, symbols, embroidery,