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,

BRANTING, AGNES & LINDBLOM, ANDREAS:

Medeltida vävnader och broderier i Sverige. Two volumes. Uppsala & Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksells förlag, 1928-9.

. Large Folio. Pp. 132, xxvi + 110 plates; 105, xxx + 110 plates. Publisher's cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, otherwise uncut. First edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 54. A very impressive and comprehensive work on the most important medieval textiles and embroideries preserved in Sweden. The first volume deals with Swedish works and the second foreign objects. Each item has been carefully described and accompanied by a beautiful illustration, some in colour. Agnes Branting (1862-1930) was a textile artist who became an expert on ancient church tapestries in Sweden. A pristine copy.

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Book number: 120210

Catalogue: Textile Sweden

Keywords: Textile Sweden, weaving, textile, issue, fabrics, sweden, swedish, ancient, medieval, medeltida, vävnader, tapestry, tapestriesembroidery

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

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,

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,

HAYAMIZU MOTOAKI & KATÍ SUMIHIKO:

Katsubi (Design of textiles). Kyoto, Hayamizu Zuanjo, Taish› 6 (1917).

. Large 8vo. Size: 19 x 26 cm. Pp. (ii) + 40 double folded leaves with woodblock-printed colour illustrations depicting various motifs and designs to be used for textiles. As issued folded and stitched in the Japanese fashion in original pictorial wrappers. With Asian red stamps. Partly with one small stain at upper margin. The images feature animals, plants and landscapes, all monochromatic rendered in brown, green, red or grey colour. This kind of textile design book, zuan-ch›, was produced in collaboration between creative publishers and inventive artists, intended to be appreciated for their own sake, as much as for any practical reason. 

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Book number: 100641

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textiles, designs, travel, exploration, textile

THORNTON, J.P." SARSFIELD":

The Sectional System of Ladies' Garment Cutting, comprising Bodices, Jackets, Ulsters, Skirts, Habits, &c. London, The Thornton Institute, (1901).

. Large 4to. Pp. viii, 304. With front portrait and 111 plates with patterns and cutting instructions. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering, rubbed and faded. Binding shaken. Minor staining to title, one marginal stain at inner margin of two pages (contents), two leaves with small marginal tear, otherwise internally very good.First edition of this classic work on cutting women's wear, published a few years after the successful publication of "Sectional system of Gentlemen's Garment Cutting". Interesting early guide to the principles of garment cutting presented in diagram form of the standard styles at the time. Seems very scarce.

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Book number: 121565

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, textile, clothing, design, cutting, garment,

YAMAGA, SEIKA (Ed.):

Mukashi watari sarasa (Ancient imported calicos or chintz). Three volumes. Kyoto, Uns›d›, Taisho 6 (1917).

. Folio. Lvs. (26); (23); (25), interleaved. Japanese title and and colophon (four leaves), and seventy leaves with numerous woodblock printed designs of sarasa. Bound in the Japanese style. Original decorated paper covers, silk threads, paper title slips on upper covers (one loose). Indian sarasa (calico) was initially imported to Japan by the Portuguese seafaring traders in the early 17th century. The exotic colourful designs featuring floral and figurative motifs became enormously popular among the wealthy samurai and merchant classes. Production of domestic sarasa began in the late 1600s when skilled Japanese dye workers found a method to replicate the designs of Indian calicos. Seika Yamaga (1885-1981) was a weaving master active in Kyoto. An impressive and attractive work presenting a huge selection of striking abstract geometric and animal design. Published by the renowned printing company Uns›d› in Kyoto.

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Book number: 100704

Catalogue: Textile

Keywords: Textile, japan, japon, japanese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, textile, textiles, illustrated, design, sarasa, chintz, calico,